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Bureau of Meteorology Legal Services Expenditure

Paragraph 11.1 of the Legal Services Directions 2005 requires Chief Executives of FMA agencies to ensure that agencies legal services purchasing, including expenditure, is appropriately recorded and monitored and that, by 30 October each year, the agency makes publicly available records of the legal services expenditure for the previous financial year.

Legal Services Expenditure 2005-06

This is a statement of legal services expenditure by the Bureau of Meteorology for financial year ended June 2006 published in compliance with paragraph 11.1 (ba) of the Legal Services Directions 2005.

Total legal services expenditure $340,683.29 (gst exclusive)

• External expenditure on solicitors $203,460.12 (gst exclusive)
• External Expenditure on counsel $3,325.00 (gst exclusive)
  • number of male counsel briefed - 1
  • number of female counsel briefed- 0
• Other disbursements on other legal services (CCH training) $11,792.00 (gst exclusive)

Total internal legal services expenditure $122,106.17 (gst exclusive)

Note: These figures have been revised from earlier estimates following the finalisation of the Bureau's 2005-06 financial statements.