REGISTERED No. D-(D)-72 The Gazette of India EXTRAORDINARY
PART II—Section 1 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY No. 67] NEW DELHI, THURSDAY, APRIL 8,1976/CHAITRA 19, 1898 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 8th April, 1976/Chaitra 19, 1898 (Saka) The following Act of Parliament received the assent of the President on the 8th April, 1976, and is hereby published for general information: — THE COMPTROLLER AND AUDITOR-GENERALS (DUTIES' POWERS AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE) AMENDMENT ACT, 1976 No. 58 OF 1976 [8th, April, 1976] An Act to amend the comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act. 1971 BE it enacted by Parliament in the Twenty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:—
1. (1) This Act may be called the Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Amendment Act, 1976.
(2) It shall be deemed to have come into force on the Ist day of March, 1976.
Short title and commencement.
56 of 1971.
2. In section 10 of the Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Act, 1971 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), in sub-section (I),—
(a) for the first proviso, the following provisos shall be substituted, namely: — "Provided that the President may, after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor-General, by order, relieve him from the responsibility for compiling—
(i) the said accounts of the Union (either at once or gradually by the issue of several orders); or Amendment of section 19.
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(ii) the accounts of any particular services or departments of the Union:
Provided further that the Governor of a State may, with the previous approval of the President and after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor-General, by order, relieve him from the responsibility for compiling—
(i) the said accounts of the State (either at once or gradually by the issue of several orders); or
(ii) the accounts of any particular services or depart-, ments of the State:";
(b) in the. second proviso, for the words "Provided further", the words "Provided also" shall be substituted.
3. In section 11 of the principal Act,—Amendment of section 11. (a) for the words "by any other person responsible in that behalf", the words "by the Government or any other person responsible In that behalf1 shall be substituted;
(b) the following provisos shall be inserted at the end, namely:— "Provided that the President may, after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor-General, by order, relieve him from the responsibility for the preparation and submission of the accounts relating to annual receipts and disbursements for the puijpose of the Union or of a .Union territory haying a Legislative Assembly:
Provided further that the Governor of a State may, with the previous approval of the President and after consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor-General, by order, relieve him from the responsibility for the preparation and submission of the accounts relating to annual receipts and disbursements for the purpose of the State.".
4. In sactlon 22 of the principal Act,—Amendment of section 21 (a) in clause (b) of sub-section (2), after the words "the accounts of", the words "the Union or of a State or of" shall be inserted;
(b) in sub-section (3), for the words "in two successive sessions", the words "in two or more successive sessions", and for the words "the session in which it is so laid or the session Immediately following", the words "the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid" shall b«r substituted.
5. Q) The, Comptroller and Auditor-General's (Duties, Powers and Conditions of Service) Amendment Ordinance, 1976, is hereby repealed.
Repeal and «avinfc.
1 of 1976.
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(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken under the principal Act, as amended by the said Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or taken under the principal Act as amended by this Act.
K K. SUNDARAM, Secy, to the Govt. of India.
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