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REPORT OF THE CONTROLLER AND AUDITOR-GENERAL I have the honour to submit my report for the year ended 31st March, 1948, in terms of subsections (2), (3), and (4) of section 89 of the Public Revenues Act, 1926, which are set out hereunder. (2) The Controller and Auditor-General shall in each year examine the public accounts received from the Treasury, and prepare and sign a report showing—(a) The particulars of any discrepancies between such accounts and the books of the Treasury: (b) Full particulars of every case in which the provisions of this or any other Act, or the regulations or any forms, have not been carried out or adopted, or have in any manner been varied or departed from: (c) Every case of failure to deliver or send in accounts or to collect or account for any moneys or stores: (d) All sums allowed or disallowed without vouchers, or with imperfect vouchers, or upon incorrect certificates: (e) Any proceeding that may have been taken by or against any person in pursuance of the provisions of this Act or the regulations: (/) All unsatisfied surcharges which have been made by the Controller and Auditor-General, and all surcharges disallowed by the Minister on appeal: (g) In what accounts the Controller and Auditor-General has, with the consent of the Minister, dispensed with a detailed audit: (h) Such other information as may be prescribed, or as the Controller and Auditor-General thinks desirable. (3) The Controller and Auditor-General shall annex or append to the said report copies of all cases laid by him before the Attorney-General for his opinion, together with a copy of the opinion given in every such case. (4) The Controller and Auditor-General shall lay the said report before Parliament within fourteen days after the public accounts have been laid before Parliament. The public accounts received from the Treasury have been examined in terms of the first part of subsection (2) and have been printed as B-l [Pt. I], and the further provisions (a-h) of subsection (2) and the provisions of subsection (3) are satisfied as follows: (a) DISCREPANCIES IN THE STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS There are no discrepancies between the accounts and the books of the Treasury, and no cases were laid before the Attorney-General. l*

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