Audit

(1) The accounts of the Corporation shall be audited once in every financial year, by auditors duly qualified to act as auditor under sub- section (1) of section 226 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), who shall be appointed by the Board and shall receive such remuneration from the Corporation as the Board may fix. (2) The auditors shall be supplied with a copy of the annual balance- sheet and the profit and loss account of the Corporation and it shall be their duty to examine them together with the accounts and vouchers relating thereto, and they shall have a list delivered to them of all books kept by the Corporation and shall at all reasonable times have access to the books, 1. Section 27 substituted vide H.P. Act No. 28 of 1979, effective from 20 th September, 1979. preceding section of this Act” vide H.P. Act No. 8 of 1984. 2. Substituted for the words “the dues of the Corporation as determined under the 18 THE HIMACHAL PRADESH SCHEDULED CASTES AND SCHEDULED TRIBES DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ACT, 1979 accounts and other documents of the Corporation and may require from any director or officer of the Corporation such information as the auditors may think necessary for the performance of their duties as auditors. (3) The auditors shall make a report to the Corporation upon the annual balance-sheet and accounts examined by them and in every such report they shall state whether, in their opinion, the balance-sheet is a full and fair balance-sheet containing all necessary particulars and properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Corporation. (4) The Corporation shall furnish to the State Government, within four months from the date on which its accounts are closed and balanced, a copy of its balance-sheet and accounts together with a copy of the auditor’s report, and a report on the working of the Corporation during the relevant year. (5) Without prejudice to anything contained in the preceding sub- sections, the accounts of the Corporation as and when it is considered necessary and expedient to do so in public interest, may also be audited by an agency specifically authorized in this behalf by the State Government from time to time and any expenditure incurred by it in connection with such examination and report shall be payable by the Corporation to such agency. 1[29-A. Laying of the annual and audit reports before the State Legislative Assembly.- The State Government shall, as soon as may be after the annual and audit reports in relation to the working of the Corporation are furnished to it by the Corporation under sub-section (4) of section 29, but within a period of nine months computed from the close of the financial year to which such reports pertain, cause the said annual and audit reports to be laid before the State Legislative Assembly.] CHAPTER-VII MISCELLANEOUS

1. (2) The auditors shall be supplied with a copy of the annual balance- sheet and the profit and loss account of the Corporation and it shall be their duty to examine them together with the accounts and vouchers relating thereto, and they shall have a list delivered to them of all books kept by the Corporation and shall at all reasonable times have access to the books, 1. Section 27 substituted vide H.P. Act No. 28 of 1979, effective from 20 th September, 1979. preceding section of this Act” vide H.P. Act No. 8 of 1984.

² Substituted for the words “the dues of the Corporation as determined under the

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accounts and other documents of the Corporation and may require from any director or officer of the Corporation such information as the auditors may think necessary for the performance of their duties as auditors.

1. (3) The auditors shall make a report to the Corporation upon the annual balance-sheet and accounts examined by them and in every such report they shall state whether, in their opinion, the balance-sheet is a full and fair balance-sheet containing all necessary particulars and properly drawn up so as to exhibit a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the Corporation.
2. (4) The Corporation shall furnish to the State Government, within four months from the date on which its accounts are closed and balanced, a copy of its balance-sheet and accounts together with a copy of the auditor’s report, and a report on the working of the Corporation during the relevant year.
3. (5) Without prejudice to anything contained in the preceding sub- sections, the accounts of the Corporation as and when it is considered necessary and expedient to do so in public interest, may also be audited by an agency specifically authorized in this behalf by the State Government from time to time and any expenditure incurred by it in connection with such examination and report shall be payable by the Corporation to such agency. 1[29-A. Laying of the annual and audit reports before the State Legislative Assembly.- The State Government shall, as soon as may be after the annual and audit reports in relation to the working of the Corporation are furnished to it by the Corporation under sub-section (4) of section 29, but within a period of nine months computed from the close of the financial year to which such reports pertain, cause the said annual and audit reports to be laid before the State Legislative Assembly.] CHAPTER-VII MISCELLANEOUS