(1) Not more than fourteen days after completion of the audit the auditor shall submit to the State Government a report on the accounts audited, and shall send a copy thereof to the Board which shall forward it to the State Government together with its observations thereon.
(2) The State Government shall take such action on the audit report as it thinks fit.
396 The West Bengal Board of Madrasah Education Act, 1994.
XXXIX of 1994.]
(Chapter VIL—Supplemental Provisions.—Sections 31-37.)
CHAPTER VII Supplemental Provisions
31. The Board shall furnish to the State Government such reports, returns and statements as may be prescribed, and such further information on any matter relating to the Board as the State Government may require.
32. The State Government may, by order in writing specifying the reasons thereof, suspend the execution of any resolution or order of the Board or any Committee constituted under this Act and prohibit the doing of any act which purports to be done or intended to be done under this Act, if the State Government is of opinion that such resolution, order or act is in excess of the powers conferred by or under this Act upon the Board or the Committee, as the case may be.
33. The members of the Board and of every Committee constituted under this Act, persons in the service of the Board and any person appointed under this Act to audit the accounts of the Board shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of section 21 of the 45 of 1860. Indian Penal Code.
34. No suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding whatever shall lie against any person for anything in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act.
35. A Tribunal appointed under this Act shall have all the powers of a Civil Court for the purposes of receiving evidence, administering oaths, and enforcing the attendance of witnesses and compelling the discovery and production of documents and shall be deemed to be a 2 of 1974. Civil Court within the meaning of sections 345 and 346 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.
Board to furnish information.
Power of State Government to suspend proceedings.
Certain persons to be deemed to be public servants.
Indemnity.
Power of Tribunals.
36. No act or proceeding taken under this Act shall be invalid on the Savings.
ground merely of—
(a) the existence of any vacancy in, or defects in the initial or subsequent constitution of, the Board or any Committee constituted under this Act,
(b) any member of the Board having voted on any matter in contravention of the provisions of section 15, or
(c) any defect or irregularity not affecting the merits of the case.