During the current parliament, the following inquiries have been undertaken by the committee:

Referred	Inquiry Name
21/01/2013	Inquiry into Land Valuation System (Report Tabled)
07/03/2012	Eighth General Meeting with the Valuer-General (Report Tabled)

Records of 9 earlier inquiries conducted by the committee are also available online.

The committee is not actively receiving submissions at present. Past submissions may be available under the relevant inquiry.

During the current parliament, the committee has or plans to table the following reports:

Report Date	Name of the report
02/05/2013	Land valuation system - Report on the inquiry into the land valuation system and the eighth general meeting with the Valuer General
25/10/2012	Interim Report on the Eighth General Meeting with the Valuer General

(there are also 11 reports from past Parliaments).

Parliament House, Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000

Resolution Passed 22 June 2011, Legislative Assembly, Votes & Proceedings No 23, Entry 9, p. 7.

(1) A Joint Standing Committee, to be known as the Joint Standing Committee on the Office of the Valuer-General be appointed.
(2) The committee’s functions be:

(a) to monitor and review the exercise of the Valuer-General’s functions with respect to land valuations under the Valuation of Land Act 1916 and the Land Tax Management Act 1956, and in particular:
(i) to monitor the methodologies employed for the purpose of conducting such valuations,
(ii) to monitor the arrangements under which valuation service contracts are negotiated and entered into, and
(iii) to monitor the standard of valuation services provided under such contracts,
(b) to report to both Houses of Parliament, with such comments as it thinks fit, on any matter connected with the exercise of the Valuer-General’s functions referred to in paragraph (a) to which, in the opinion of the committee, the attention of Parliament should be directed,
(c) to report to both Houses of Parliament any change that the Committee considers desirable to the Valuer-General’s functions referred to in paragraph (a),
(d) to inquire into any question in connection with the Committee’s functions which is referred to it by both Houses of Parliament, and to report to both Houses on that question.

(3) The functions of the Committee not extend to the investigation of any matter relating to or arising from a particular valuation of a specific parcel of land.
(4) The Committee consist of five members as follows:
(a) three members of the Legislative Assembly of whom two must be Government members and one must be a non-Government member, and
(b) two members of the Legislative Council of whom one must be a Government member and one must be a non-Government member.
(5) Mr Clayton Barr, Mr Matt Kean and Mrs Leslie Williams be appointed to serve on the Committee as the members of the Legislative Assembly.
(6) Notwithstanding anything contained in the standing orders of either House, at any meeting of the Committee, any three members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum, provided that the Committee meets as a Joint committee at all times.
(7) The Committee have leave to sit and transact business during the sittings or any adjournment of either House, and despite any prorogation of the Houses of Parliament.
(8) The Committee have leave to make visits of inspection within the State of NSW and other States and Territories of Australia.
(9) A message be sent acquainting the Legislative Council of the resolution and requesting the Legislative Council appoint two of its members to serve with the members of the Legislative Assembly on the Committee, and to fix a time and place for the first meeting.