Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014

CHAPTER 2 - COMMONWEALTH ENTITIES AND THE COMMONWEALTH  

PART 2-3 - PLANNING, PERFORMANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY  

Division 1 - Planning and budgeting  

SECTION 16EA  

16EA   PERFORMANCE MEASURES FOR COMMONWEALTH ENTITIES  

Guide to this section

The purpose of this section is to set out the requirements for the performance measures for a Commonwealth entity.

The performance measures must be included in the entity ' s corporate plan (see subsection 16E(2) ) and are used to measure and assess the entity ' s performance in a reporting period (see subsection 16F(1) ).

This section is made for subsection 35(2) of the Act.


The performance measures for an entity meet the requirements of this section if, in the context of the entity ' s purposes or key activities, they:

(a)    relate directly to one or more of those purposes or key activities; and

(b)    use sources of information and methodologies that are reliable and verifiable; and

(c)    provide an unbiased basis for the measurement and assessment of the entity ' s performance; and

(d)    where reasonably practicable, comprise a mix of qualitative and quantitative measures; and

(e)    include measures of the entity ' s outputs, efficiency and effectiveness if those things are appropriate measures of the entity ' s performance; and

(f)    provide a basis for an assessment of the entity ' s performance over time.




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