Local Bodies’ Audit Act 1888

Public Act		1888 No 32
Date of assent		30 August 1888

	Title
	Preamble
1	Short Title.
2	Interpretation.
3	Meeting to be postponed or adjourned until balance-sheet received from Auditor.
4	Notice to be given to Councillors.
5	Provisions of Act applicable to adjourned meetings.
6	Publication of balance-sheet.

An Act for extending the Period within which the Annual Accounts of Local Bodies shall be Passed.

Preamble.

WHEREAS it is expedient to extend the time within which the annual balance-sheet of the accounts of any local body is required to be passed:

Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1 Short Title.

The Short Title of this Act is “The Local Bodies’ Audit Act, 1888.”

2 Interpretation.

The term “local body” means and includes every City, Borough, or County Council, Load Board, Harbour Board, and any body receiving grants of public money.

3 Meeting to be postponed or adjourned until balance-sheet received from Auditor.

Where by any Act it is provided that the annual balance-sheet of any local body shall, after being duly audited, be passed at an annual or special meeting to be held on a day or within a period in any such Act specified, and such balance-sheet shall not have been received from the Auditor in time for such meeting, it shall be lawful for the Mayor or Chairman of such Council or Board from time to time to postpone or adjourn such meeting until such balance-sheet shall have been received from the Auditor.

4 Notice to be given to Councillors.

The said Mayor or Chairman shall cause notice to be given to every member of the Council or Board of the day to which such meeting is postponed or adjourned.

5 Provisions of Act applicable to adjourned meetings.

All the provisions of any such Act applying to such annual or special meeting shall apply equally to the meeting to which the same is postponed or adjourned under the provisions of this Act.

6 Publication of balance-sheet.

Whenever it is made to appear that the publication of the annual balance-sheet of any local body in manner provided by law is unnecessarily expensive, the Governor may, by warrant under his band, prescribe some other means of publication of such balance-sheet, and if the provisions of such warrant be complied with the balance-sheet therein referred to shall be deemed duly published.

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