Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866

5 Present offices of Comptroller General of the Exchequer and Commissioners of Audit to be abolished.

On the appointment as aforesaid of a Comptroller and Auditor General and an Assistant Comptroller and Auditor, the then existing letters patent of appointments of Comptroller General of the Exchequer and of Commissioners of Audit shall he ipso facto revoked, and the present offices of Comptroller General of the Exchequer and Commissioners of Audit shall he abolished, but the person appointed to be Comptroller and Auditor General shall have and perform all the powers and duties conferred or imposed on the Comptroller General of the Exchequer and the Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts respectively by any enactments relative to those authorities respectively as far as the same are not repealed or altered by this Act or any other Act of the present session of Parliament; and it shall be lawful for the Treasury to grant to each of the said Commissioners of Audit whose offices shall be abolished under the provisions of this Act, and who shall not be appointed to either of the said offices of Comptroller and Auditor General or Assistant Comptroller and Auditor, an annual allowance, by way of compensation, not exceeding the sum charged on the Consolidated Fund as the salary of such Commissioners : Provided always, that any Commissioners who may be in receipt of emoluments exceeding the salary so charged on the Consolidated Fund shall be entitled to receive, in addition to the aforesaid compensation allowance, such proportion of the said emoluments as the Treasury are empowered to grant under the provisions of the Superannuation Act, 1859; and such allowances shall be charged upon and paid out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or the growing produce thereof.