Companies (Auditing and Accounting) Act 2003
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Work programme. |
13.—(1) The Supervisory Authority shall prepare and submit to the Minister a work programme for— | |
(a) in the case of the initial work programme, the period specified by the Minister, and | ||
(b) in the case of each subsequent work programme, the period of 3 years beginning on the day after the last day of the period covered by the preceding work programme. | ||
(2) In preparing the work programme, the Supervisory Authority shall have regard to the need to ensure the most beneficial, effective and efficient use of its resources and shall include the following information: | ||
(a) the key strategies and activities the Supervisory Authority will pursue to further its objects and perform its functions; | ||
(b) the outputs the Supervisory Authority aims to achieve and against which its performance will be assessed; | ||
(c) the staff, resources and expenditures (including an annual programme of expenditure) necessary to pursue the strategies and activities mentioned in paragraph (a). | ||
(3) In addition to capital and other expenditures, the annual programme of expenditure must include the amount of revenue to be received under section 14 (1) and (2) that is to be paid into the reserve fund. | ||
(4) With the consent of the Minister for Finance and after considering the views of the prescribed accountancy bodies, the Minister may approve, with or without amendment, the annual programme of expenditure. | ||
(5) If the annual programme of expenditure is amended under subsection (4), the Supervisory Authority— | ||
(a) may revise any other part of the work programme, and | ||
(b) if it does so, shall submit to the Minister the revised work programme, including the annual programme of expenditure as amended under subsection (4). | ||
(6) The Supervisory Authority may— | ||
(a) if it considers it necessary to do so, undertake an interim review of a work programme, and | ||
(b) submit to the Minister, within the period covered by that programme, an amended or supplementary work programme, including an amended or supplementary annual programme of expenditure. | ||
(7) Subsections (4) and (5) apply with any necessary changes if an amended or a supplementary annual programme of expenditure is submitted to the Minister. | ||
(8) Subject to subsection (9), the Minister shall ensure that a copy of each work programme (including each revised, amended or supplementary work programme) is laid before each House of the Oireachtas not later than 60 days after the date on which it was submitted to the Minister. | ||
(9) If a revised work programme (including a revised amended or supplementary work programme) is submitted to the Minister before the unrevised work programme is laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas as required by subsection (8), only the revised work programme need be laid before the Houses. | ||
(10) The Minister may not give directions to the Supervisory Authority concerning the discharge of a work programme, including an amended or a supplementary work programme. |