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(1) The Ceylon Transport Board shall, as soon as possible, after the end of each financial year of the board, make to the Minister a report on the exercise and performance by the board of its powers and duties during that year and on its policy and programme. Such report for any year shall set out any direction given by the Minister to the Ceylon Transport Board during that year unless the Minister has notified to the board his opinion that it is against the interests of national security to do so. The Minister shall lay a copy of such report before the Senate and the House of Representatives. |
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(2) The Ceylon Transport Board shall, on receipt of the Auditor-General's report in each year, transmit to the Minister-
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(3) The Minister shall lay copies of the report and statement referred to in subsection (2) before title Senate and the House of Representatives. |
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(4) The Ceylon Transport Board shall cause copies of the report of the board and of the Auditor-General's report and statistics referred to in subsection (2), to be printed at the expense of the board and to be made available for purchase by the public at such price as shall be determined by the board. |
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