Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02018:body:0:p60
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02018
Segment Type: other
Provision Reference: 
Character Range: 147853–150563

accounts—
          (i) was held in cash, on deposit with a bank or partly in cash and partly on deposit with a bank; and
          (ii) equalled the amount ascertained by aggregating the amount standing to the credit of those accounts at the commencement of the financial year and the total specified in the notification so given to the responsible Minister by the Auditor-General and subtracting from that aggregate the total of the amounts of expenditure referred to in the certificate.
"(6) The responsible Minister in respect of a Department or organization shall comply with a request under sub-section (5) as soon as practicable after he receives the request.

"(7) The Auditor-General shall transmit a signed copy of a certificate concerning the exempt accounts of a Department or organization in respect of a financial year or a part of a financial year that is furnished to him in compliance with a request under sub-section (5) to each House of the Parliament at the same time as he transmits a signed copy of his report, in respect of that financial year, relating to the Department or organization to each House of the Parliament in accordance with section 53.
"(8) A person to whom this sub-section applies shall not, either directly or indirectly, and either while he is, or after he ceases to be, a person to which this sub-section applies, divulge or communicate, except with the consent of the Minister or, in the course of duty, to another person to whom this sub-section applies, any information, acquired by him by reason of his being a person to whom this sub-section applies, that relates to any moneys allocated for crediting to the exempt accounts, or to any receipts or expenditure recorded in the exempt accounts, of a Department or organization.
Penalty: $500.
"(9) Except so far as the contrary intention appears—
      (a) a provision of this Act, or of any other Act whether passed before or after the commencement of this section, that authorizes or requires the Auditor-General to inspect, examine or audit any accounts of, or relating to, a Department or organization shall, in the case of a Department that is, or has been, a prescribed Department or of an organization that is, or has been, a prescribed organization, be taken to authorize or require the Auditor-General to inspect, examine or audit only such accounts of, or relating to, the Department or organization as are not exempt accounts of the Department or organization; and
      (b) nothing in this Act, or in any other Act whether passed before or after the commencement of this section, shall be taken to authorize the Auditor-General or any person appointed by the Auditor-General under section 11 to inspect