COMMENTARY ON SECTIONS Section 19: Annual report
36.This section requires the Commissioner to report annually to the Assembly. The Assembly may give directions as to the form of the report and the nature of the information it must contain but the report must in any event include information relating to the financial affairs of the office. (See also paragraph 7 of the schedule below). The Commissioner must also, if reasonably practicable to do so, comply with any requirement by the Committee on Standards of Conduct to attend before that Committee and to provide information about the matters which are required to be included in the annual report.