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EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921 - SECT 15

Examination of Appropriation Accounts.

15. Every Appropriation Account shall be examined by the Comptroller and
Auditor-General on behalf of the House of Commons, and in the examination of
such accounts the Comptroller and Auditor-General shall satisfy himself that
the money expended has been applied to the purpose or purposes for which the
grants made by Parliament were intended to provide and that the expenditure
conforms to the authority which governs it, and he shall also scrutinise the
expenditure of all moneys voted by the House of Commons, and the balances on
all such accounts.

The Comptroller and Auditor-General, after satisfying himself that the
vouchers have been examined and certified as correct by the accounting
department, may, in his discretion and having regard to the character of the
departmental examination, in any particular case admit the sums so certified
without further evidence of payment in support of the charges to which they
relate:

Provided that, if the Ministry of Finance desires the vouchers or any of them
to be examined in greater detail, the Comptroller and Auditor-General shall
take action accordingly.

The Comptroller and Auditor-General shall report to the House of Commons any
important change in the extent or character of any examination made by him.][

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