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| (1) The accounts of the Board in respect of each financial year shall be submitted to the Auditor-General for audit before the lapse of six months from the end of that year. For the purpose of assisting him in the audit of such accounts, the Auditor-General may employ the services of any qualified auditor or auditors who shall act under his direction and control. |
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| (2) For the purpose of meeting the expenses incurred by him in auditing the accounts of the Board, the Auditor-General shall be paid from the funds of the Board such remuneration as the Minister may with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, determine. Any remuneration received from the Board by the Auditor-General shall, after deducting any sums paid by him to any qualified auditor employed by him for the purposes of such audit, be credited to the Consolidated Fund of Ceylon. |
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| (3) The Auditor-General and any person assisting him in the audit of the accounts of the Board shall have access to all such books, deeds, contracts, accounts, vouchers and other documents of the Board as the Auditor-General may consider necessary for the purposes of the audit, and shall be furnished by the Board, or its officers with such information within their knowledge as may be required for such purposes. |
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| (4) For the purposes of this section, the expression qualified auditor " means -
| | (i) an individual who, being a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ceylon, possesses a certificate to practise as an Accountant issued by the Council of that Institute; or | | |
| | (ii) a firm of Chartered Accountants each of the partners of which, being a member of that Institute, possesses a certificate to practise as an Accountant issued by the Council of that Institute. | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts