National Lottery Act 2013

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Accounts and annual report of Regulator

22. (1) The Regulator shall keep in such form as may be approved of by the Minister, all proper and usual accounts of all moneys received or expended by him or her and all such special accounts (if any) as the Minister may direct.

(2) Accounts kept in pursuance of this paragraph in respect of each year shall be submitted by the Regulator in the following year on a date (not later than 4 months following the end of the financial year) to the Comptroller and Auditor General for audit and, as soon as may be after the audit, a copy of those accounts, or of such extracts from those accounts as the Minister may specify, together with the report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the accounts, shall be presented by the Regulator to the Minister who shall cause copies of the documents presented to him or her to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas.

(3) The Regulator shall, when presenting the report referred to in subsection (2) to the Minister, present a report to the Minister in relation to the performance of his or her functions in the previous financial year and shall cause a copy of the report to be laid before each House of the Oireachtas.

(4) The Regulator shall appear before the Oireachtas Committee having functions relating to the National Lottery when requested to do so by that Committee.