Broadcasting Act 2009
F37[Reporting by Commission.
31.— (1) The Commission shall not later than the 30th day of June in each year prepare and submit to the Minister a report on its activities in the immediately preceding year (in this section referred to as the “annual report”), and the Minister shall, as soon as may be after receiving the annual report, cause copies of the annual report to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas.
(2) An annual report shall include information in such form and regarding such matters as the Minister may direct but nothing in this subsection shall be construed as requiring the Commission to include information the inclusion of which would, in the opinion of the Commission, be likely to prejudice the performance of its functions.
(3) An annual report shall include details of any scheme approved under Part 10 or 10A of this Act.
(4) An annual report shall include a report to the Minister on progress made towards increasing the accessibility of audiovisual media services to people with disabilities, and in particular, on progress made to achieve the intended outcomes relating to such accessibility set out in any media service rules.
(5) The Commission may furnish to the Minister such information or reports, in addition to the annual report, about the performance of its functions as it considers appropriate.
(6) In addition to information provided by the Commission in its annual report and in any reports made under subsection (5) the Commission shall supply to the Minister such information as the Minister may require regarding the performance of its functions.
(7) The Commission shall arrange for an annual report that has been laid before each House of the Oireachtas in accordance with subsection (1) to be published, on a website maintained by the Commission, as soon as practicable after copies of the report are so laid.]
Annotations
Amendments:
F37
Substituted (15.03.2023) by Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022 (41/2022), s. 8, S.I. No. 71 of 2023.
Modifications (not altering text):
C8
Section applied with modifications (15.03.2023) by Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022 (41/2022), s. 66, S.I. No. 71 of 2023.
Final accounts and final annual report of Authority
66. (1) Final accounts of the Authority shall be drawn up by the Commission as soon as may be after the establishment day but not later than 6 months thereafter and shall be in such form as may be approved by the Minister, in respect of the financial year or part of the financial year of the Authority.
(2) Accounts prepared pursuant to this section shall be submitted as soon as may be by the Commission to the Comptroller and Auditor General for audit, and, immediately after the audit, a copy of the income and expenditure account and of the balance sheet and of such other (if any) of the accounts as the Minister may direct and a copy of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s report on the accounts shall be presented to the Minister who shall cause copies of them to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas.
(3) The Commission shall prepare the final annual report for the Authority and submit the report to the Minister not later than 6 months after the establishment day.
(4) Subject to subsection (3) and to the modifications referred to in subsection (5), section 31 of the Principal Act as substituted by section 8 shall apply in relation to an annual report prepared under this section.
(5) The modifications referred to in subsection (4) are that—
(a) the reference to Part 10A of the Principal Act in section 31(3) of the Principal Act shall be deleted, and
(b) the reference in section 31(4) of the Principal Act to media service rules shall be construed as a reference to broadcasting rules made under section 43(1)(c) of the Principal Act as it existed before the coming into operation of section 73(a).