(1)Where a report or return of any proceedings of a Ministry of Northern Ireland, or of an officer of any such Ministry, is required by any enactment to be made annually, or to be laid annually before Parliament, it shall be a sufficient compliance with that requirement if the report or return is made or laid before Parliament (as the case may be) at intervals longer than a year but not in any case longer than three years.
(2)Where such enactment requires that particular returns or statistical information shall be included in the report or return, that requirement may be modified by the Ministry by whom the public service in question is administered to such extent as that Ministry may consider reasonable, having regard to the expense of such inclusion.
(3)Nothing in this section shall affect the making, or laying before the House of Commons or both Houses of Parliament, of any report or return so far as it relates to, or includes, accounts of the receipt and expenditure of public moneys.