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Part VII · Responsibilities of a Chief Accounting Officer and Accounting Officer

39. Chief Accounting Officer & c., to consider the Detailed Management Audit Report submittedby the Auditor-General

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails.

(1)

The Chief Accounting Officer of a Ministry, the

Accounting Officer of a Department, or the governing body or the Head of any other auditee entity concerned shall, on receipt of the Annual Detailed Management Audit Report of the Auditor-General referred to in section 11, consider such report and inform the Auditor-General, the Secretary to the Treasury and the appropriate Minister, of the concerns and remedial actions proposed.

(2)

The remedial actions referred to in subsection (1) shall be submitted to the Auditor-General within three months from the submission of the reports to the auditee entities, giving reasons for the ability or inability, if any, to take action on any of the matters pointed out in such Detailed

Management Audit Report.

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