Corporate documents | National Capital Authority

Several of our corporate documents are available on this website.

Statement of Expectations and Statement of Intent

A Statement of Expectations is issued by the Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories to the National Capital Authority to provide clarity about the Australian Government's policies and objectives relevant to the NCA and the priorities the Minister expects the NCA to observe in its operations. The NCA responds to the Statement of Expectations through a Statement of Intent, outlining how the NCA will meet the Government's expectations.

Statement of Expectations

Statement of Intent

Annual Reports

See our Annual Reports for previous years.

Corporate Plan

See our current corporate plan (National Capital Authority Corporate Plan 2024-25 to 2027-28).

Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP)

See our current Reconciliation Action Plan (National Capital Authority Reconciliation Action Plan 2024-2026).

NCA Policies

See our policies, including our:

NCA Artificial Intelligence (AI) Transparency Statement

See our statement on Artificial Intelligence here

List of NCA files

Every six months we provide an indexed list of file titles. This is a requirement of Senate Continuing Order No 10.

Financial Information

See our financial information, including our portfolio budget statements and details on our legal expenditure.

E-Invoicing

As part of government’s Digital Business Plan, Federal Government agencies are to become e-invoicing enabled by July 2022. The good news is that the National Capital Authority has now enabled e-invoicing capability and as such will be able to pay invoices from you in five days if you are eligible and e-invoicing enabled. Other Federal Government agencies who are already e-invoicing enabled are now also paying eligible e-invoices for contracts up to $1 million in value within five days.

What is e-invoicing?

E-invoicing is the automated digital exchange of invoice information directly between a buyer's and supplier's accounting systems. Australia uses the internationally established Peppol e-invoicing framework. This framework contains common standards that allow invoice exchange between different accounting systems. It means invoice processing can be streamlined and invoices can be sent and received in a more secure way than email.

You can find more information on the:

Digital Business Plan in the government media release.

Benefits of e-invoicing

Cost savings
Less time and errors
Reliable and secure
Reduced payment times
Connect once, trade with many
Environmentally friendly.

How to get ready

To start using e-invoicing you’ll need to check with your accounting software provider to see if they are offering Peppol accredited e-invoicing capability and what you need to do to be enabled.

Information for businesses who want to get started with e-invoicing is also available on the ATO website. You can also look up the ATO’s E-invoicing accredited service providers list to find who is already registered and offering e-invoicing.

If you have any questions, then please email accounts@nca.gov.au

Procedures for determining breaches of the Code of Conduct

See our Procedures for determining breaches of the Code of Conduct here.

Senate Order on Departmental and Agency Contracts Listing

See our Senate Order on Departmental and Agency Contracts Listing here.

Authority meeting records

Six Authority meetings are held each year. The public records of each meeting can be downloaded here. As some matters are privileged or confidential, these records follow, but do not completely represent, the formal minutes of each meeting.