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Times to which quarterly Exchequer Accounts are to be made up.
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V. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, at and after such Time as may appear to them convenient, to direct that the quarterly Accounts now made up by the Comptroller-General of the Exchequer, under the Provisions of the Twenty-third Section of the Act Fourth William the Fourth, Chapter Fifteen, shall be made up to the Termination of the Quarters ending Thirty-first March, Thirtieth June, Thirtieth September, and Thirty-first December in every Year, and that the annual Account directed by the same Section of the said Act to be prepared and laid before each House of Parliament, together with the Certificates required to be furnished by the Principal Cashier of the Bank of England of the Sum remaining to the Credit of the Exchequer, shall be prepared for the Year ending on the Thirty-first March; and such Quarterly Accounts shall thenceforward be transmitted to the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts; and such annual Accounts shall be laid before each House of Parliament within Ten Days after the Time fixed for such Purpose by the said Act.
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