The accounts of the receipts and expenditure of every compensation board shall be audited by such auditor of accounts relating to the relief of the poor as the Local Government Board may from time to time appoint; and such auditor shall have the like powers, as he would have under section two hundred and forty-seven of the [38 & 39 Vict. c. 55.] Public Health Act, 1875, in relation to the audit of accounts of an urban authority (not being the council of a borough) ; and the audit of the accounts of every such board shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of that section as amended by the [42 & 43 Vict. c. 6.] District Auditors Act, 1879, and with the like incidents and consequences.