EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921

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EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921 - SECT 28



28.(1) The Comptroller and Auditor-General shall hold his office during good
behaviour, but subject to removal therefrom by [Her Majesty], on an address
from both Houses of Parliament; and he shall not be capable of holding his
office together with any other office to be held during the pleasure of the
Governor of Northern Ireland, or in any Department.]

(2) There shall be paid to the Comptroller and Auditor-General a salary of
[#9,375 a year or such larger sum as may be determined by Order in Council
under the Salaries (Comptroller and Auditor-General and Others) (Northern
Ireland) Order 1973], and such salary shall be charged on and issued out of
the Consolidated Fund.

(3) The Comptroller and Auditor-General shall not be capable of holding his
office after he has attained the age of sixty-five years.

(4) The service of any person as Comptroller and Auditor-General shall, as
from the establishment of that office, be treated for the purposes of the
Superannuation Acts (Northern Ireland), 1921 to 1949, as amended from time to
time, as service in an established capacity in the permanent civil service of
Northern Ireland:

(i)the amount of any pension, allowance or gratuity which may be granted to,
or in respect of, such person shall be charged on and issued out of the
Consolidated Fund;

(ii)nothing in this sub-section shall affect the right of any person to
receive any pension, allowance or gratuity which may be awarded to, or in
respect of the service of, an existing Irish Officer under the provisions of
the Government of Ireland Act, 1920, but no such person shall be entitled to
receive any pension, allowance or gratuity under this section if any pension,
allowance or gratuity has been awarded to him under the last-mentioned Act.]

(5) The Comptroller and Auditor-General may appoint to the Exchequer and Audit
Department such officers and servants as he may, with the sanction of the
Ministry of Finance, determine, and there shall be paid to those officers and
servants, out of moneys provided by Parliament, such salaries as that Ministry
may determine.

[(6) Anything which under any enactment is required or authorised to be done
by the Comptroller and Auditor-General may be done by an officer of the
Exchequer and Audit Department authorised for that purpose by the Comptroller
and Auditor-General, but an authority given under this section to certify and
report on accounts for the House of Commons or each House of Parliament

(a)shall extend only to accounts in respect of which the [presiding officer of
the Assembly] PS0800[has certified]PS1000, that the Comptroller and
Auditor-General is unable to do so himself; and

(b)shall cease on a vacancy arising in the office of Comptroller and
Auditor-General.]

Definitions.

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EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921 - SECT 28