PART IIIGeneral

Expenses and Borrowing

51Small Holdings Account

1

For the purposes of this Act " The Small Holdings Account," opened at the Bank of England under the [7 Edw. 7. c. 54.] Small Holdings and Allotments Act, 1907, shall be continued.

2

There shall be paid to this account—

a

such money as may from time to time be provided by Parliament towards defraying the costs and expenses of the Board directed by this Act to be paid out of the Small Holdings Account; and

b

all sums received by the Board and directed by this Act to be paid into the Small Holdings Account.

3

The costs and expenses of the Board directed by this Act to be paid out of the Small Holdings Account shall be paid by the Board out of the money standing to that account.

4

At the end of every financial year, accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Small Holdings Account shall be made up in such form and with such particulars as may be directed by the Treasury, and shall be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor-General as public accounts in accordance with such regulations as the Treasury may make, and shall be laid before Parliament, together with his report thereon.

5

Payments out of, and into, the Small Holdings Account, and all other matters relating to the account, and to the money standing to the credit of the account, shall be paid and regulated in such manner as the Treasury direct.