Submission on Integrity and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023
The OIC provided a submission to the Economics and Governance Committee on Integrity and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2023. The report recommends further enhanced settings to those outlined in the Bill be adopted through this legislative process to ameliorate some of Government’s concerns. They include the following:
- Replace the direct role of portfolio Ministers of the executive branch in the appointment of Officers of Parliament and as the responsible Minister for financial administration of integrity agencies with the oversight of the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
- Regularise Parliamentary reporting by integrity agencies under the auspices of a single portfolio committee led by the Speaker of the House, in a manner similar to the Officers of Parliament Committee in New Zealand.
- Include a 5-year statutory review clause in the Bill to enable a review of this process after 5 years have elapsed.
