What are the obligations of public authority?

Answer 1

A public benefit corporation is a public corporation chartered by a state designed to perform some public service. A public authority is a type of public benefit corporation that takes on a more bureaucratic role, such as the maintenance of public infrastructure, that often has broad powers to regulate or maintain public property.

Authorities borrow from both municipal corporations law (that is, the laws responsible for the creation of cities, towns, and other forms of local government) and private corporations law. Other public benefit corporations resemble private non-profit organizations, and take on roles that private corporations might otherwise perform. These corporations often operate in heavily regulated industries, such as broadcasting and transportation.

Corporations such as these are often found in common law jurisdictions such as Commonwealth countries, including Canadian provinces and U.S. states.

Answer 2

Hi, Faiz. Your question should bave been more specific. Supposing public authority means the govrnment, I wish to stress that its main obligations are to maintain internal peace and to exercise external sovereignty against foreign aggression. If any of these obligations are ignored, it means that the government is collapsed.

Answer 3

It shall publish within one hundred and twenty days of the enactment:-

i.the particulars of its organization, functions and duties;

ii.the powers and duties of its officers and employees;

iii.the procedure followed in its decision making process, including channels of supervision and accountability;

iv.the norms set by it for the discharge of its functions;

v.the rules, regulations, instructions, manuals and records used by its employees for discharging its functions;

vi.a statement of the categories of the documents held by it or under its control;

vii.the particulars of any arrangement that exists for consultation with, or representation by the members of the public, in relation to the formulation of policy or implementation thereof;

viii.a statement of the boards, councils, committees and other bodies consisting of two or more persons constituted by it. Additionally, information as to whether the meetings of these are open to the public, or the minutes' of such meetings are accessible to the public;

ix.a directory of its officers and employees;

x.the monthly remuneration received by each of its officers and employees, including the system of compensation as provided in its regulations;

xi.the budget allocated to each of its agency, indicating the particulars of all plans, proposed expenditures and reports on disbursements made;

xii.the manner of execution of subsidy programmes, including the amounts allocated and the details and beneficiaries of such programmes;

xiii.particulars of recipients of concessions, permits or authorizations granted by it;

xiv.details of the information available to, or held by it, reduced in an electronic form;

xv.the particulars of facilities available to citizens for obtaining information, including the working hours of a library or reading room, if maintained for public use;

xvi. the names, designations and other particulars of the Public Information Officers.[ S.4(1)(b)]