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FIRE AND EMERGENCY SERVICES SUPERANNUATION ACT 1985 - SECT 21

21 .         Minister to have access to information

        (1)         For parliamentary purposes or for the proper conduct of the Minister’s public business, the Minister is entitled — 

            (a)         to have information in the possession of the Superannuation Board; and

            (b)         where the information is in or on a document, to have, and make and retain copies of, that document.

        (2)         For the purposes of subsection (1) the Minister may — 

            (a)         request the Superannuation Board to furnish information to the Minister;

            (b)         request the Superannuation Board to give the Minister access to information;

            (c)         for the purposes of paragraph (b) make use of the staff of the Superannuation Board to obtain the information and furnish it to the Minister.

        (3)         The Superannuation Board shall comply with a request under subsection (2) and make its staff and facilities available to the Minister for the purposes of paragraph (c) of that subsection.

        (4)         In this section — 

        document includes any tape, disc or other device or medium on which information is recorded or stored mechanically, photographically, electronically or otherwise;

        information means information specified, or of a description specified, by the Minister that relates to the functions or powers of the Board;

        parliamentary purposes means the purpose of — 

            (a)         answering a question asked in a House of Parliament; or

            (b)         complying with a written law, or an order or resolution of a House of Parliament, that requires information to be furnished to a House of Parliament.

        [Section 21 inserted by No. 26 of 1994 s. 9.]



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