Gun Buy Back Scheme - The Australian National Audit Office

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3 75 identified a discrepancy between reported figures in the early stages of the scheme. 58 The Gun Buy-Back Scheme
The Attorney-General’s Department advised the ANAO that this arose because their Financial Management Branch reported the total amount of funds advanced to the States, while OLEC’s reports to the Attorney-General focussed on the total amount paid by the States in compensation. This indicates that monitoring of program expenditure was undertaken at an appropriately senior level. Audit and acquittal 3 76 For the purposes of accountability, it is important that arrangements for audit and acquittal are clearly defined and understood by relevant parties. In its planning advice, the ANAO advised the OLEC that States should be required to provide, on completion of the scheme, a final audited return detailing total amounts received and expended, supported by a reconciliation of firearms acquired, paid for and destroyed. 3 77 At the time of this audit in mid-1997, arrangements for the final audit and acquittal of State compensation payments for firearms surrender transactions had not been clearly defined by the Attorney-General’s Department. The Department advised the ANAO that it was the Department’s expectation that relevant State Auditors-General were ensuring compliance. However, the ANAO’s discussions with representatives of those offices indicated that, with the exception of Tasmania, there was no formal involvement by State Auditors-General in the acquittance of State expenditure of buy-back funds. The ANAO concluded that specific arrangements for independent audit and acquittal differ between States but were not clearly known to the Attorney-General's Department. Conclusion 3 78 Although there were weaknesses in internal management control and there was a need to amend the 1996 Act, payments to the States were made legally. The Attorney-General’s Department managed payments to the States efficiently and effectively. However, the ANAO found that there was scope to clarify arrangements for final audit and acquittal of State expenditure of gun buy-back funds. Recommendation No.1 3 79 The ANAO recommends that in order to ensure accountability for the scheme, the Attorney-General's Department clarifies The Gun Buy-Back Scheme 59
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