Royalties for the Regions Act 2009

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Field	Value
Sector	Mining
Country	Australia
Year	2009
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Legislation and regulation, Open data, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, Sovereign wealth funds, State-owned enterprises, Subnational governance, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type	Statute
RGI Sub-component	Sovereign wealth funds
RGI Questions	1.2.6a: Is the government required to make all payments to the national treasury or deposit them into a national resource account, aside from amounts legally retained by SOEs?, 2.2b: Are there specific rules governing the transfer of extractive resource revenues (i.e. are these rules distinct from those governing other types of transfers)?, 2.2c: Do rules specify that subnational governments of producing areas should receive a higher share of extractive resource revenues than those of non-producing areas?, 2.3.1a: Are there numeric rules governing the size of withdrawals from the sovereign wealth fund?, 2.3.5a: Is the sovereign wealth fund required to produce annual financial reports?, 2.3.5d: Is the legislature required to review the sovereign wealth fund's annual financial reports?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law
Publisher	Western Australia Govt
Author	Western Australia Govt
Source or API link	http://www.slp.wa.gov.au/pco/prod/FileStore.nsf/Documents/MRDocument:16583P/$FILE/Royalties%20for%20Regions%20Act%202009%20-%20[00-00-01].pdf?OpenElement
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute