Access to accounts to be afforded for audit purposes
19 Access to accounts to be afforded for audit purposes
Without limiting the powers conferred by this Act, the
Auditor-General or an authorised auditor must, at all reasonable times, have full and free access to all accounts and records required by the prescribed requirements to be kept and to money of the
Territory or public property that is in the possession of any person and may make copies of or extracts from those accounts and records.
A person who has in the person's possession any accounts referred to in subsection (1), money of the Territory or public property must, at all reasonable times, on request by the
Auditor-General or an authorised auditor, produce to the
Auditor-General or the authorised auditor, as the case may be, such accounts, records, moneys or property as are specified in the request.
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