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The undertakers shall every year cause an annual account in abstract to be prepared, showing the total receipt and expenditure of all monies levied by virtue of this or the special Act for the year ending the thirty-first day of December or some other convenient day in each year, under the several distinct heads of receipt and expenditure, with a statement of the balance of such account, duly audited and certified by the clerk or secretary for the time being of the undertakers, and shall send a copy of the said account, free [F1of charge, to the clerk of the peace in England and Ireland, and the sheriff clerk in Scotland, for the county or of the counties respectively, if more than one, in which the harbour, dock, or pier is situate][F1charge, to the chief clerk], on or before the expiration of one month from the day on which such account shall end, which accounts shall be open to the inspection of the public at all seasonable hours, on payment of the sum of [F215p] for every such inspection: Provided always, that if the undertakers omit to prepare and send such accounts as aforesaid, they shall forfeit for every such omission the sum of [F3level 2 on the standard scale].
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 50 substituted (N.I.) (31.10.2016) by Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 2015 (c. 9), s. 106(2), Sch. 1 para. 14(3) (with Sch. 8 para. 1); S.R. 2016/387, art. 2(k) (with art. 3)
F2Words substituted by virtue of Decimal Currency Act 1969 (c. 19), s. 10(1)
F3Words substituted (E.W.S.) by virtue of (E.W.) Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48, SIF 39:1), s. 46 and (S.) Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1975 (c. 21, SIF 39:1), s. 289G
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