§ '.-(1) A body shall keep proper accounts in respect of any money paid to it under section 22 and proper records in relation to the accounts.
§ (2) A body shall prepare a statement of accounts in respect of each financial year in which it was paid any money under section 22 or distributed or applied any money under section 23.
§ (3) The statement shall comply with any directions that may be given by the Secretary of State as to the information to be contained in such a statement, the manner in which such information is to be presented or the methods and principles according to which such a statement is to be prepared.
§ (4) Copies of the statement shall be sent to the Secretary of State and the Comptroller and Auditor General within such period after the end of the financial year to which the statement relates as the Secretary of State may direct.
§ (5) The Comptroller and Auditor General shall examine, certify and report on the statement and shall lay copies of the statement and of his report before Parliament.
§ (6) The Secretary of State shall not give a direction under this section without the Treasury's approval.
§ (7) This section does not apply to the National Lottery Charities Board or to the Millennium Commission.'.—[Mr. Brooke.]
§ Brought up, read the First and Second time and added to the Bill.