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EXCHEQUER AND FINANCIAL PROVISIONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1950 - SECT 2

Annual accounts of public income and expenditure and of other Exchequer receipts and payments.

2.(1) The Ministry of Finance shall, within fifteen days after the expiration
of every financial year, prepare and transmit to the Comptroller and Auditor
General accounts showing, by reference to the actual receipt and issue of
moneys into and out of the account of the Exchequer at the Exchequer Bank
during that financial year

(a)the public income and expenditure; and

(b)all other receipts into and payments out of the Exchequer;

(i)the amount of the surplus of public income over public expenditure or of
the excess of public expenditure over public income, as the case may be, for
that financial year; and

(ii)the balance to the credit of the Exchequer at the end of that financial
year.

(2) Copies of the said accounts, certified by the Comptroller and Auditor
General, shall be laid before the House of Commons within one month after the
expiration of the financial year, if that House is then sitting, or if not
sitting, within one week after that House next sits after such expiration.

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