Pigs and Bacon (Amendment) Act, 1939

Accounts, records and reports of the Commission.

15.—(1) The Commission shall keep all proper books of accounts and other books and records and shall within six months after the end of every year prepare and transmit to the Minister and to every licensee, a statement of accounts (duly audited and certified by an auditor appointed by the Commission with the consent and approval of the Minister) in respect of such year and the Minister shall lay such statement of accounts before each House of the Oireachtas.

(2) The Commission shall in each year, at such date and in such form as the Minister may direct, make to the Minister a report of its proceedings during the preceding year and the Minister shall lay such report before each House of the Oireachtas.

(3) The Commission shall furnish to the Minister, in such form as the Minister may direct, such information, statistics and returns as the Minister may from time to time require.

(4) The Commission shall on payment of one shilling furnish to any person a copy of any statement of accounts which has been prepared in pursuance of this section.