Part 6: Environmental outcomes reports Reporting Section 161: Reporting Effect
Subsection (1) is an enabling power to allow the appropriate authority to require a public authority to provide information in relation to the delivery of environmental outcomes.
	Subsection (2) frames the potential contents of any Environmental Outcomes Report regulations in respect of reporting requirements. Subsection (2)(a) – (f) allow regulations to set the details of what is required of public authorities in relation to reporting. This includes: the form and content of information ((a) and (b)); when and how information is to be published ((c) and (d)); to whom the report is to be provided ((e)) and allowing reports to be combined with other documents ((f)).
Example: Reporting on environmental outcomes
The appropriate authority could, for example, use this power to make regulations requiring local planning authorities to provide consolidated information on how their local plans are delivering on specified environmental outcomes.