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Executive to prepare and submit corporate plan for Minister's approval.
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29.—(1) The Executive shall, in accordance with this section, prepare, adopt and, at the times specified in subsection (2), submit to the Minister for approval a corporate plan for the 3 year period following the date of its submission.
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(2) A corporate plan must be submitted at the following times:
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(a) within 6 months after the establishment day;
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(b) within 6 months after the appointment of a new Minister having charge of the Department of Health and Children, if that Minister requests that a corporate plan be submitted;
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(c) at the end of the 3 year period since the last corporate plan was submitted.
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(3) The corporate plan must be prepared in a form and manner in accordance with any directions issued by the Minister and must specify—
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(a) the key objectives of the Executive for the 3 year period concerned and the strategies for achieving those objectives,
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(b) the manner in which the Executive proposes to measure its achievement of those objectives, and
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(c) the uses for which the Executive proposes to apply its resources.
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(4) In preparing the corporate plan, the Executive shall have regard to the policies of the Government or a Minister of the Government to the extent that those policies may affect or relate to the functions of the Executive.
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(5) Within 3 months after receiving a corporate plan, the Minister shall—
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(a) approve the plan, or
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(b) if the plan is not amended in accordance with any directions that may be issued by the Minister to the Executive, refuse to approve the plan.
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(6) An approved corporate plan may be amended by the Minister at any time or may be amended by the Executive, but in the latter case only after—
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(a) the Executive submits the proposed amendment to the Minister for approval, and
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(b) the amendment is approved by the Minister.
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(7) Subsections (4) and (5) apply with the necessary modifications in respect of an amendment by the Executive to an approved corporate plan.
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(8) Nothing in a corporate plan is to be taken to prevent the Executive from, or to limit the Executive in, performing its functions.
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