(1) Officers authorized to inspect, any supervisory officer of the Department or any private or public sector technical cum audit expert/agency duly authorized by the Appointing Authority or by the Inspector General of Registration in this behalf may inspect all or any of the branches/offices of the Central Record-keeping Agency and Approved Intermediaries located within its jurisdiction.
(2) The Inspector General of Registration may, however, at any time on receipt of a complaint or suo-motu, direct any official of the Department to inspect any branch or office of the Central Record-keeping Agency or Approved Intermediaries and to submit a report, be sides the regular inspections mentioned in sub-rule(1).
(3) The Accountant General, Bihar may also make audit of the receipts and remittances made by the Central Record-keeping Agency.
33. All or any of the branches/ offices of the Central Record-keeping Agency and Approved Intermediaries in the State will be inspected and audited as per the schedule provided by the appointing authority.
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34. During such inspection the Inspecting Officer or the expert/agency may require the Officer In-charge of the inspected branch/office to provide any information on soft and/or hard copy of any electronic or digital record related to the collection and remittance of Court Fees relating to any period of same and the concerned Central Record-keeping Agency or Approved Intermediary shall provide such information on priority basis.
35. The Inspecting Officer and the technical-cum-audit expert/agency shall submit inspection report mentioning the omissions, violations, delay sorer regularities, if any, and give suggestion sand recommendations to the The Inspector General of Registration .
36. The The Inspector General of Registration on receipt of inspection report shall take appropriate action in the matter and may (if so warranted by the circumstances) make recommendation to the Appointing Authority, including imposition of penalty and/ or termination of appointment of Central Record-keeping Agency or the agency Authorized as Collection Centre. If the The Inspector General of Registration is also authorized by the Government to function as Appointing Authority, he will take appropriate action in that capacity.
37. The Appointing Authority may, after giving a reasonable opportunity of being heard to the Central Record-keeping Agency or the Agency authorized as Collection Centre, take any appropriate action as it deems fit on the basis of the inspection/technical audit report and the recommendations of the The Inspector General of Registration .
CHAPTER-9 PENALTY FOR OMISSIONS AND VIOLATIONS
38. In case the Central Record-Keeping Agency fails to remit the amount of collected Court Fees in proper Account Head of the State within the period stipulated in sub-rule(1) of rule 19, the Central Record-Keeping agency shall be liable to pay penalty for the delay, be sides the collected amount of Court Fees as per the terms of the agreement.
39. If any act, omission, irregularity or violation on the part of the Central Record-keeping Agency or any of its Authorized Collection Centers has resulted in loss of revenue to the Government, the Central Record-keeping Agency shall indemnify such amount of loss of revenue along with interest calculated at the rate of one and half percent permen-sum and penalty not exceeding twice the lossof revenue to the Government.
40. In case, the Central Record-keeping Agency does not to pay the amount due to the Government and the penalty imposed by the Appointing Authority under these Rules, such amount may be recovered from the arrear of the commission.
CHAPTER-10 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM/DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM