72 Accounts and audit.U.K.
(1)Each new authority shall keep a fund to be known as the general fund; and all receipts of the authority shall be carried to that fund and all liabilities falling to be discharged by the authority shall be discharged out of that fund.
(2)Accounts shall be kept of receipts carried to, and payments made out of, the general fund.
(3)In section 12(2) of the M1Local Government Finance Act 1982 (accounts subject to audit) after paragraph (a) there shall be inserted—
“(aa)a joint authority;
(ab)the Inner London Education Authority;”.
(4)Nothing in subsection (1) above shall be construed as requiring or authorising an authority to apply or dispose of the surplus revenue arising from any undertaking carried on by it otherwise than in accordance with any enactment or instrument applicable to the undertaking.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 72(1)(2)(4) amended by S.I. 1985/1884, art. 9(1)
C2S. 72(1)(2)(4) modified by S.I. 1987/2110, art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 7(g)
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