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Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946

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31Board's accounts and audit thereof.

(1)The Board shall keep proper accounts and other records in relation thereto, and shall prepare in respect of each financial year of the Board a statement of accounts in such form as the Minister may direct, being a form which shall conform with the best commercial standards and which shall distinguish the colliery activities and each of the main ancillary activities of the Board.

(2)The accounts of the Board shall be audited by auditors to be appointed annually by the Minister.

(3)So soon as the accounts of the Board have been audited, they shall send a copy of the statement of accounts referred to in subsection (1) of this section to the Minister together with a copy of any report made by the auditors on that statement or on the accounts of the Board.

(4)The Minister shall lay a copy of every such statement and report before each House of Parliament.

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