REGISTERED NO. D.(D)-72 The Gazette of India EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 8] NEW DELHI, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1984/PHALGUNA 36, 1905 Separate paging is given to this Part in order that it may be filed as a separate compilation MINISTRY OF LAW, JUSTICE AND COMPANY AFFAIRS (Legislative Department) New Delhi, the 16th March, 1984/Phalguna 26, 1905 (Saka) The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 16th March, 1984, and is hereby published for general information:— THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR-GENERAL'S (DUTIES, POWERS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) AMENDMENT ACT, 1984 No. 2 OF 1984 [16th March, 1984.]
An Act further to amend the Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971.
BE it enacted by Parliament in the Thirty-fifth Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. This Act may be called the Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Amendment Act, 1984.
Short title.
2. In the Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in section 6, after sub-section (6), the following subsections shall be inserted, namely:— Amendment of section 9.
56 of 1971.
"(6.A) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this section, a person referred to in sub-section (1) who demits office [whether in any manner specified in sub-section (8) or by resignation] as the Comptroller and Auditor-General after the commencement of the Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, (0 a THE GAZETTE OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY [PART K^- Powers and Conditions of Service) Amendment Act, 1984, shall, on such demission, be entitled to—
(a) the pension to which he would have been entitled under the rules of the Service to which he belonged by reckoning his service as the Comptroller and Auditor-General as continuing approved service counting for pension in such Service; and
(b) a special pension of seven hundred rupees per annum in respect of each completed year of service as the Comptroller and Auditor-General:
Provided that the aggregate of the amounts payable to him under clause (a) and clause (b) of this sub-section shall in no case exceed a sum of*twenty thousand and four hundred rupees per annum.
(6B) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this section/ a person referred to in sub-section (3) who demits office [whether in any manner specified in sub-section (8) or by resignation] as the Comptroller and Auditor-General after the commencement of the Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Amendment Act, 1984, shall, on such demission, be entitled to— fa) the pension payable to him in respect of any previous service under Government; and
(b) a special pension of seven hundred rupees per annum in respect of each completed year of service as the Comptroller and Auditor-General:
Provided that the aggregate of the amounts payable to him under clause (a) and clause (b) of this sub-section shall in no case exceed a sum of twenty thousand and four hundred rupees per annum, and such sum shall include the aggregate of all other pensions, if any, payable to him and the commuted portion, if any, of his pension.".
3. Sectioni 14 of the principal Act shall be renumbered as sub-section
(1) thereof and— Amendment of section
14. (a) in the Explanation to sub-section (1) as so renumbered,—
(i) for the words "rupees five lakhs", the words "rupees twenty-five lakhs" shall be substituted;
(ii) for the words "this section", the words "this sub-section" shall be substituted;
(b) after sub-section (1), as so renumbered) the following subsections shall be inserted, namely: — " (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), the Comptroller and Auditor-General may, with the previous approval of the President or the Governor of a State or the Administrator of a Union territory having a Legislative Assembly, as the case may be, audit all receipts and expenditure of any body or authority where the grant or loan to such body or authority from the Consolidated Fund of India or of any State „ or of any Union territory; having a Legislative Assembly, as the case may be; in a financial year is not less than rupees one crore.
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(3) Where the receipts and expenditure of any body or authority are, by virtue of the fulfilment of the conditions specified in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2), audited by the Comptroller and Auditor-General in1 a financial year, he shall continue to audit the receipts and expenditure of that body or authority for a further period of two years notwithstanding that the conditions specified in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2) are not fulfilled during any of the'two subsequent years.".
4. After section 19 of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely: — Insertion of new section
18A.
'19A. (J) The reports of the Comptroller and Auditor-General, in relation to the accounts of a Government company or a corporation referred to in section 1^ shall be submitted to the Government or Governments concerned,
(2) The Central Government shall cause every report received by it under sub-section (1) to be laid, as soon as may be after it Is received, before each House of Parliament.
(3) The State Government shall cause every report received by it under sub-section (1) to be laid; as soon as may be after it is received, before the Legislature of the State.
Laying of reports in relation to accounts of Government companies and corporations.
Explanation.—For the purposes of this section, "Government" or "State Government"^ in relation to a Union territory having'a Legislative Assembly, means the Administrator of the Union territory.'.
Jt. V. S. PERI SASTRL Secy, to the Govt, of Itufaa.
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