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Annual Financial Accounts to be made up to 31st March instead of 5th January.
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II. It shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury, if they shall see fit, at and after such Time as may appear to them convenient, instead of the Accounts now by Law directed to be annually prepared and made out for One Year ending on the Fifth Day of January in each Year of the total Income of the United Kingdom, including all the ordinary Revenues and extraordinary Resources thereof, and of the Income of the said Consolidated Fund, and of the actual Payments thereout, and of the future annual Charge upon the said Fund, and of the net Produce of all the permanent Taxes of the United Kingdom, and of the Arrears and Balances due from all public Accountants, and of the Exports and Imports of the United Kingdom, and of the Shipping registered in or belonging to the several Ports of Her Majesty’s Dominions, and of the public Expenditure of the United Kingdom, and of the Public Funded Debt of the United Kingdom, and the Reduction thereof, and of the Unfunded and Outstanding Debt of the United Kingdom, and instead of the Account showing how the Monies given for the Service of the United Kingdom for the Year preceding the said Fifth Day of January have been disposed of, to cause Accounts to be annually prepared and made up for One Year ending on the Thirty-first Day of March, and in all respects with reference to such Day, in like Manner as if in the Provisions now in force relating to the Preparation and making out of such Accounts the Thirty-first Day of March was substituted for the Fifth Day of January; and the said Commissioners shall in each Year cause such Accounts to be laid before both Houses of Parliament on or before the Thirtieth Day of June, if Parliament be sitting, or if Parliament be not sitting then within Fourteen Days after the next Meeting of Parliament.
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