Exchequer and Audit Departments Act, 1866

Accounts other than appropriation accounts to be examined, under Treasury directions, by the Comptroller and Auditor General.

33. [1] Besides the appropriation accounts of the grants of Parliament, the Comptroller and Auditor General shall examine and audit, if required so to do by the Treasury, and in accordance with any regulations that may be prescribed for his guidance in that behalf by the Treasury, the following accounts; viz., the accounts of all principal accountants, the accounts of the receipt of revenue by the departments of Customs, Inland Revenue, and Post Office, the accounts of every receiver of money which is by law payable into Her Majesty’s Exchequer, and any other public accounts which, though not relating directly to the receipt or expenditure of imperial funds, the Treasury may by minute, to be laid before Parliament, direct.

[1 This Act is to apply to certain accounts of Chelsea Hospital, 39 & 40 Vict. 14. s. 1.]