s.56Chief Officer of finance's power to require information
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Section 56Part 6 — Financial Secretary and chief officer of Finance

Chief Officer of finance's power to require information

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This section applies to any entity in the entire public sector and to a non-governmental output supplier receiving money from the Government.
To perform functions under section 54, the chief officer of finance may require the entity to do either or both of the following things by a stated date —
give that officer stated information; or
prepare and give that officer a stated document containing stated information.
The requirement may include that the information or document is to be in a stated format.
The entity shall comply with the requirement.
Any issue about whether information is relevant to the functions is to be decided by the Minister of Finance.
The requirement may be made generally for any or all entities of the types mentioned in subsection (1) —
by an entry in the Public Finance Manual prepared and published under section 54; or
on a post on a Government website that the chief officer of finance considers appropriate to inform them of the requirement.

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