Public Service Act 1999

Order to Establish the Digital Transformation Office as an Executive Agency

I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret’d), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council and under section 65 of the Public Service Act 1999:

a)      establish the Digital Transformation Office as an Executive Agency;

b)     allocate the name Digital Transformation Office to the Executive Agency;

c)      allocate the name Chief Executive Officer to the Head of the Executive Agency;

d)     identify the Minister for Communications as the Minister responsible for the Executive Agency; and

e)      specify that the functions of the Digital Transformation Office be as follows:

1. to provide leadership on government service delivery;
2. to develop and implement user-centred whole-of-government service delivery policies and standards;
3. to design and govern the implementation and enhancement of
   whole-of-government service delivery platforms;
4. to co-ordinate the funding of whole-of-government service delivery platforms;
5. to provide advice to the Minister on service delivery proposals; and
6. to undertake other relevant tasks as the Minister may require from time to time.

This Order will commence on 1 July 2015.

Dated                                 12 March 2015

Peter Cosgrove

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

Tony Abbott

Prime Minister