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Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts

 

3rd Session Terms of Reference

On March 1, 2007, the Legislative Assembly agreed:

  1. That the reports of the Auditor General of British Columbia deposited with the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly during the Third session of the Thirty-eighth parliament be deemed referred to the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, with the exception of the report referred to in section 22 of the Auditor General Act which is referred to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services, and in addition that the following reports of the Auditor General of British Columbia be referred to the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts:
  • Report No. 13, 2004/2005: Building Momentum for Results-based Management: A Study about Managing for Results in British Columbia (March 2005)
  • Report No. 3, 2005/2006: Audit of the Government's Corporate Accounting System: Part 1 (June 2005)
  • Report No. 10, 2005/2006: Building Better Reports: Our Assessment of the 2004/05 Annual Service Plan Reports of Government (March 2006)
  • Report No. 3, 2006/2007: Treaty Negotiations in British Columbia (November 2006)
  • Report No. 4, 2006/2007: Province of British Columbia Audit Committees: Doing the Right Things (December 2006)
  • Report No. 5, 2006/2007: Audit of Government's Corporate Accounting System: Part 2 (December 2006)
  • Report No. 6, 2006/2007: Monitoring the Government's Finances (December 2006)
  • Report No. 7, 2006/2007: Government's Post-secondary Expansion -- 25,000 Seats by 2010 (December 2006)
  • Report No. 8, 2006/2007: Changing Course -- A New Direction for British Columbia's Coastal Ferry System (December 2006)
  • Report No. 9, 2006/2007: Seeking Best Practices in Financial Reporting: Report on the Province's 2005/2006 Public Accounts (January 2007)
  • Report No. 8, 2004/2005: Follow-up of 2002/2003 Report 5: Managing Contaminated Sites on Provincial Lands (November 2004)
  • Report No. 9, 2004/2005: Follow-up of Two Health Risk Reports: A Review of Performance Agreements; Information Use in Resource Allocation (December 2004)
  • Report No. 12, 2004/2005: Third Follow-up of 2000/2001 Report 4: Management Consulting Engagements in Government (March 2005)
  • Report No. 1, 2005/2006: Follow-up of the Recommendations of the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts contained in its Fourth Report of the 3rd Session of the 36th Parliament: Earthquake Preparedness; Performance Audit (May 2005)
  • Report No. 2, 2005/2006: Joint Follow-up of 2001/2002 Report 1: Managing Interface Fire Risks and Firestorm 2003 Provincial Review (May 2005)
  • Report No. 7, 2006/2007: Follow-up of 2003/2004 Report 4: Alternative Payments to Physicians: A Program in Need of Change (February 2006)
  • Review Engagement Report re: Partnerships BC Project Report: Achieving Value for Money Sea-to-Sky Highway Improvement Project (December 20, 2005)
  1. That the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts be the committee referred to in sections 2, 6, 7, 10, 13 and 14 of the Auditor General Act.

In addition to the powers previously conferred upon the Select Standing Committee on Public Accounts, the Committee be empowered:

  1. to appoint of their number, one or more subcommittees and to refer to such subcommittees any of the matters referred to the Committee;
  2. to sit during a period in which the House is adjourned, during the recess after prorogation until the next following Session and during any sitting of the House;
  3. to adjourn from place to place as may be convenient; and
  4. to retain personnel as required to assist the Committee,

and shall report to the House as soon as possible, or following any adjournment, or at the next following Session, as the case may be; to deposit the original of its reports with the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly during a period of adjournment and upon resumption of the sittings of the House, the Chair shall present all reports to the Legislative Assembly.