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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 77

Audit of accounts of councils.

77.(1) The chief financial officer of every council shall make up to the end
of each financial year the accounts of the council and of every committee of
the council for which accounts are separately kept.

(2) The chief financial officer shall prepare statements of accounts in the
prescribed form or, if no form is prescribed, in the form directed by
the Ministry and, within such period after the expiration of the financial
year to which the statements relate as the Ministry directs, shall deliver to
the Ministry such number of copies of the statements as the Ministry directs.

(3) The local government auditor, not less than twenty-eight days before the
day that he has appointed for auditing the accounts, shall notify the council
of that day and of the time and place so appointed, and the council, not less
than fourteen days before that day, shall give public notice of that day, time
and place and shall also publish such a notice in at least two newspapers
circulating in the district.

(4) The clerk shall, at least seven days before the time appointed for
auditing the accounts,

(a)deposit the statements of accounts and all books and documents relating to
the accounts in the offices of the council, and

(b)permit those statements, books and documents to be inspected and copied by
all persons interested, at all reasonable hours.

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