Section 19: Auditors to be appointed to examine Official Trustees‟s accounts, etc., and to report to Government.

The Official Trustees Act, 1913Central Act · Act 2 of 1913

(1) The accounts of the Official Trustee shall be audited at least once annually and at any other time if the Government so direct by the prescribed person and in the prescribed manner.

(2) The auditor shall examine such accounts, and shall forward to Government a statement thereof in the prescribed form, together with a report thereon and a certificate signed by him showing--

[(a) whether the accounts have been audited in the prescribed manner, and whether, so far as can be ascertained by such audit, the accounts contain a full and true account of everything which ought to be contained therein;]

(b) whether the books, which by any rules made under this Act are directed to be kept by the Official Trustee, have been duly and regularly kept, and

(c) whether the trust funds and securities have been duly kept and invested and deposited in the manner prescribed by this .Act or any rules made thereunder;

or (as the case may be) that such accounts are deficient, or that the Official Trustee has failed to comply with this Act or the rules made thereunder, in such respects as may be specified in such certificate.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Official Trustees Act, 1913
Section	19
Marginal note	Auditors to be appointed to examine Official Trustees‟s accounts, etc., and to report to Government.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

substituted, Act 48 of 1964. . Subs. by Act 48 of 1964, s. 12, for clause (a).

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