Details of Provisions
The section provides that the Secretary of State must, for each financial year:
(a)
prepare, in such a form and manner as Treasury may direct, an account of sums paid and received by him under sections 66, 67 and 71; and
(b)
send the account to the UK Comptroller and Auditor General not later than the end of November in the following financial year.
In addition, the UK Comptroller and Auditor General must examine, certify and report on the account and must lay copies of it and his report before each House of Parliament.