The Attorney General’s Department sought and was provided a Capital allocation of $4.8m to address the Y2K issue which was fully expended. There were no significant issues raised during the 31 December 1999 to 1 January 2000 roll over period nor during the subsequent roll over from 20 February 2000 to 1 March 2000 period. The Department achieved its anticipated objective of no disruption to the delivery of services to its clients.

The Department embarked on an extensive awareness and education campaign to ensure staff were appraised of the Year 2000 project impact and progress and to provide helpful information to assist them both at the workplace and at home. Major projects were initiated across the Department to identify test and rectify applications for Year 2000 readiness

The Year 2000 issue had the potential to disrupt operations in a broad range of areas. Projects were initiated across the Department to address the Year 2000 issue in major applications such as the Jury Roll and Courtnet Systems along with environments such as wide and local area networks, Lotus Notes business applications, the desktop environment, voice communication networks and building services. Contingency plans were completed to address the Year 2000 roll over period and extensive plans developed within business units to address business continuity planning.

In line with the Office of Information Technology guidelines, the Department took a “business as usual” approach to the Year 2000 roll over and this was achieved.

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