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CAP. 385]

Regional Council

[1986 Ed.

Fees.

Fees for official signatures etc.

(c) such other statements as the Director of Accounting Services

may specify from time to time.

(2) The Director of Audit shall be entitled at any time to have access to all books of account, vouchers and other financial records of the Regional Council and to require such information and explanations as he thinks fit.

(3) On receipt of the statements referred to in subsection (1), the Director of Audit shall-

(a) examine and audit the statements; and

(b) within a period of 6 months after the close of the financial year, or such longer period as the Governor may determine, prepare and submit to the Regional Council a report in respect of his examination and audit of the statements together with

(i) a copy of the statement of assets and liabilities duly certified by him; and

(ii) a copy of the statement of receipts and payments duly certified by him.

(4) The Chairman shall send copies of the audited statements and of the report of the Director of Audit to the Governor.

44. Where under any regulations made by the Governor in Council the Regional Council is constituted as the authority for the purposes of such regulations and as such authority the Regional Council is required to do anything for which a fee is to be paid or a charge made all such fees and charges shall be payable to the Regional Council.

45. (1) The Regional Council may make by-laws prescribing fees, for the attendance of a public officer to the matters mentioned in subsection (2), to be paid to the Regional Council in cases where-

(a) by any enactment the Regional Council is constituted as an

authority for the purposes of that enactment;

(b) any such matter is required or authorized by law and it is the function of a public officer on behalf of the Regional Council to attend to it; and

(c) no fee therefor is otherwise payable to the Regional Council and the enactment does not disallow the charging of a fee therefor.

(2) The matters referred to in subsection (1) are-

(a) the signing of any certificate, authorization, consent, licence, permit or exemption, or any alteration, transfer or renewal thereof, addition thereto or endorsement thereon, or any copy of the same;