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EXCHEQUER AND AUDIT DEPARTMENTS ACT 1866 - SECT 22

Annual accounts of the appropriation of the supply grants comprised in the Appropriation Act.

22. On or before the days specified in the respective columns of schedule A
annexed to this Act, accounts of the appropriation of the several supply
grants comprised in the Appropriation Act of each year shall be prepared by
the several departments, and be transmitted for examination to the Comptroller
and Auditor General and to the Treasury, and when certified and reported upon
... they shall be laid before the House of Commons; and such accounts shall be
called the "appropriation accounts" of the moneys expended for the services to
which they may respectively relate; and the Treasury shall determine by what
departments such accounts shall be prepared and rendered to the Comptroller
and Auditor General; and the Comptroller and Auditor General shall certify and
report upon such accounts ...; and the reports thereon shall be signed by the
Comptroller and Auditor General: Provided always, and it is the intention of
this Act, that the Treasury shall direct that the department charged with the
expenditure of any vote under the authority of the Treasury shall prepare the
appropriation account thereof: Provided also, that the term "department", when
used in this Act in connexion with the duty of preparing the said
appropriation accounts, shall be construed as including any public officer or
officers to whom that duty may be assigned by the Treasury.

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