(1) The accounts of the fund shall be audited once in a year by the Auditor.
(2) The Committee shall submit all the accounts of the fund to the Auditor within forty-five days from the close of the finance year to which the account relate.
(3) The Auditor may,- a. by issuing summons, in writing, require production of any books, deeds, contracts, account, vouchers, receipts or other documents, the perusal or examination of which he consider necessary;
b. by issuing summons, in writing require any person having the custody of control or any such documents or accountable for them to appear in person before him;
c. require any person so appearing to make and sign a declaration with respect of such document or to answer any question or to prepare and furnish any statement relating thereto.
(4) The Auditor shall,- a. report to the committee any material impropriety or irregularity which he may observe in the expenditure or the recoveries of monies, if any, due to the fund’s accounts;
b. advise the committee on the lines and forms in which such various accounts of the fund shall ne maintains, so as to avoid any such impropriety or irregularity, including other measures, as may be considered necessary;
c. furnish to the committee, such information as it may require concerning the progress of audit;
d. report to the committee any loss or wastage of monies caused by neglect or misconduct with the names of persons, directly or indirectly responsible for such loss or wastage;
e. submit to the committee the final statement of the audit and a duplicate copy thereof to the Government within a period of ninety days from the end of the financial year or within such other period as the Government may notify.