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Accounts of capital and revenues.
29 & 30 Vict. c. 39.
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37. The Commissioners appointed under this Act shall prepare in such form, and either annually or for such shorter periods, as the Treasury may direct, accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the capital and of the revenues derived from all property, real and personal, vested in the Commissioners, or of any other funds falling under their control and management under the provisions of this Act; and within three months after the expiration of each year, or other shorter period, to which the accounts relate, the Commissioners shall transmit the same to the Comptroller and Auditor General, to be audited, certified, and reported upon with reference to the provisions of this Act, and in conformity with the powers and regulations prescribed in the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act, 1866, for the rendering and auditing of appropriation accounts; and the accounts with the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General thereon, shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament not later than two months after the date on which they shall have been rendered for audit, if Parliament be then sitting, and if not sitting, then within a week after it shall be next assembled: Provided always, that the expense of such audit shall be included in the incidental expenses herein-before mentioned of carrying this Act into execution, and shall be defrayed accordingly.
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