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(1)The Welsh Ministers must, for each financial year, prepare an account of the payments into and out of the Welsh Consolidated Fund.
(2)The account must be prepared in accordance with directions given to the Welsh Ministers by the Treasury.
(3)The directions which the Treasury may give under subsection (2) include, in particular, directions as to—
(a)the information to be contained in the account and the manner in which it is to be presented,
(b)the methods and principles in accordance with which the account is to be prepared, and
(c)the additional information (if any) that is to accompany the account.
(4)Any account which the Welsh Ministers are directed under this section to prepare for any financial year must be submitted by the Welsh Ministers to the Auditor General no later than 30th November in the following financial year.
(5)The Auditor General must—
(a)examine and certify any account submitted under this section, and
(b)no later than four months after the account is submitted, lay before the Assembly a copy of it as certified by the Auditor General together with the Auditor General's report on it.
(6)In examining an account submitted under this section the Auditor General must, in particular, be satisfied—
(a)that any payment out of the Welsh Consolidated Fund to which the account relates was paid out in compliance with section 124 or 130, and
(b)that money which is required to be paid into the Welsh Consolidated Fund has been paid into that Fund.
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I1This provision in force immediately after "the 2007 election" by s. 161(1) (subject to s. 161(4)(5))
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