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Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866

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Under the terms of the act the 'Comptroller and Auditor General' continued to authorise the issue of money to departments (the comptroller function) and was given the new task of examining departmental accounts and reporting the results to Parliament.
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An Act to consolidate the Duties of the Exchequer and Audit Departments. to regulate the Receipt, Custody, and Issue of Public Moneys, and to provide for the Audit of the Accounts thereof.
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The act "established a cycle of accountability for public funds": Public spending was authorised by the
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under which most of the revenue from taxation, and all other money payable to the
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The act combined the functions of two historical job functions:
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Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866, section 5.
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was conferred on this Act by section 1 of this Act.
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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title
Citation
29 & 30 Vict.
Royal assent
Commencement
29 & 30 Vict.
UK Act of Parliament
Exchequer
Consolidated Fund
House of Commons
Comptroller and Auditor General
financial accounts
Committee of Public Accounts
William Gladstone
Comptroller and Auditor General (United Kingdom)
Comptroller General of the Exchequer
Commissioners of Audit
Treasury
short title
"Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866"
UK Statute Law Database
Office of Public Sector Information
"History of the National Audit Office"
National Audit Office
the original
Categories
United Kingdom public law
United Kingdom Acts of Parliament 1866
Legal history of England

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