Australian Capital Territory
Financial Management (Performance Criteria) Amendment 2013  (No 3)*
Notifiable instrument NI2013–56
made under the 
Financial Management Act 1996, section 19D (amendment of performance criteria)

1	Name of instrument
This instrument is the Financial Management (Performance Criteria) Amendment 2013 (No 3).
2	Commencement 
This instrument is taken to have commenced on 1 July 2012. 
3	Amendment of performance criteria for 2012-13
	Performance criteria are amended for 2012-13 as set out in the tables below.

A transcription error occurred during preparation of the 2012-13 budget papers that resulted in 2013-14 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Numeracy and Literacy National Assessment Program targets being published as 2012-13 target data.

Output Class 1: Public School Education – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literacy targets 	
Literacy mean achievement score of:	item	 	Incorrect 
2012-13 targets 	Correct 
2012-13	
	b	Year 3 Reading	375	369	
	d	Year 5 Reading	457	451	
	f	Year 7 Reading	514	509	
	h	Year 9 Reading	561	556	
	j	Year 3 Writing	394	389	
	l	Year 5 Writing	450	444	
	n	Year 7 Writing	493	488	
	p	Year 9 Writing	526	521	
Output Class 1: Public School Education – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Numeracy targets 	
Numeracy mean achievement score of:	item	 	Incorrect 
2012-13 targets 	Correct 
2012-13	
	b	Year 3 Numeracy	372	366	
	d	Year 5 Numeracy	445	439	
	f	Year 7 Numeracy	511	505	
	h	Year 9 Numeracy	556	552	

Output Class 1: Public School Education	
Output Class 1: Public School Education

National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy	Literacy mean achievement score of:
o.  all year 7 students in writing
p.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander year 7 students in writing	Literacy mean achievement score of:
o.  all year 9 students in writing
p.  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander year 9 students in writing	
4	Statement of reasons for amendments
Section 19D of the Financial Management Act 1996 allows the Minister to amend performance criteria if the criteria do not reflect the provision of outputs by the Directorate as required under section 30A of the Financial Management Act 1996.

Ms Joy Burch MLA
Minister for Education and Training
4 February 2013

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

This statement outlines the reasons for the amendment of performance criteria under section 19D of the Financial Management Act 1996.

Output Class 1: Public School Education
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Literacy Targets

Incorrect targets are shown for 2012-13 for National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy targets for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in output class 1. The error is corrected by replacing the incorrect targets with the correct 2012-13 targets. The correct targets are notified through this instrument.

Output Class 1: Public School Education
National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy

Mean achievement scores of all year 9 students in writing and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander year 9 students in writing were labelled as all year 7 students in writing and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander year 7 students in writing under indicators ‘o’ and ‘p’ due to a typing error. The correct description of the indicators is notified through this instrument.