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EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1921 - SECT 6

Credits for ways and means granted to make good supplies and issues to Departments.

6. When any ways and means shall have been granted by Parliament to make good
the supplies granted to His Majesty by a resolution of the House of Commons,
or by any Act of Parliament, the Comptroller and Auditor-General shall grant
to the Ministry of Finance, on the requisition of that Ministry, a credit or
credits on the account of the ... Exchequer, ..., not exceeding in the whole
the amount of the ways and means so granted. Out of the credits so granted to
the Ministry of Finance issues or transfers shall be made to [Departments]
from time to time on orders issued to the ... Exchequer Bank, signed by one of
the secretaries of that Ministry, or in their absence, by such officer as that
Ministry may from time to time appoint to that duty; and the services or votes
on account of which the issues or transfers may be authorised shall be set
forth in such orders.

A daily account of all issues or transfers made from the account of the ...
Exchequer in pursuance of such orders shall be transmitted by the Exchequer
Bank to the Comptroller and Auditor-General and to the Ministry of Finance.

Determination by Ministry of Finance of accounts to be deemed public accounts.

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