Limerick Harbour Act, 1926

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Inspection of accounts.

22.—(1) All the accounts which are required by law to be kept by the Commissioners shall be open to the inspection of the persons paying tolls from ten o'clock till one o'clock in the day-time; such account shall be prepared and ready for audit within two months after the 31st day of December in the year 1926 and in every subsequent year and a full audited abstract of the accounts shall within three months after the 31st day of December in the year 1926 and in every subsequent year or within 21 days next after the completion of the audit of accounts whichever shall be the longer period be, published in a newspaper or newspapers circulating and published in the County Borough of Limerick.

(2) The Commissioners shall within two months after the 31st day of December in the year 1926 and in every subsequent year or within 21 days next after the completion of the, audit of accounts whichever may be the longer period send to the Minister for Industry and Commerce a copy of the audited accounts mentioned in the foregoing sub-section and section 16 of the General Pier and Harbour Act, 1861, Amendment, Act, 1862 shall apply to such accounts in the same manner in all respects as it applies to the account mentioned in that section.

(3) If and whenever the Commissioners fail to publish a full abstract of their accounts or to send a copy of their accounts to the Minister for Industry and Commerce in accordance with this section within the period specified in that behalf in this section they shall be liable for every week or part of a week in which after the period aforesaid they so fail to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds recoverable in a Court of summary jurisdiction.