(3) Every County Council shall from time to time appoint a finance committee for regulating and controlling the finance of their county; and the order for the payment of a sum out of the county fund, whether on account of capital or income, shall not be made by a County Council, except in pursuance of a resolution of the council passed on the recommendation of the finance committee, and (subject to the provisions of this Act respecting the standing joint committee) any costs, debt, or liability exceeding fifty pounds shall not be incurred except upon a resolution of the council, passed on an estimate submitted by the finance committee. THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1894. 56 and 57 Vict. c. 73. 58. (1) The accounts of the receipts and payments of parish and district councils, and of parish meetings for parishes not having parish councils, and their committees and officers, shall be made up yearly to the thirty-first day of March, or in the case of accounts which are required to be audited half-yearly, then half-yearly to the thirtieth day of September and the thirty-first day of March in each year, and in such form as the Local Government Board prescribe. (2) The said accounts shall, except in the case of accounts audited by the auditors of a borough (but inclusive of the accounts of a joint committee appointed by a borough council with another council not being a borough council), be audited by a district auditor, and the enactments relating to audit by district auditors of accounts of urban sanitary authorities and their officers, and to all matters incidental thereto and consequential thereon, shall apply accordingly, except that in the case of the accounts of rural district councils, their committees and officers, the audit shall be half-yearly instead of yearly. (3) The Local Government Board may, with respect to any audit to which this section applies, make rules modifying the enactments as to publication of notice of the audit and of the abstract of accounts and the report of the auditor. (4) Every parochial elector of a rural parish may, at all reasonable times, without payment, inspect and take copies of and extracts from all books, accounts, and documents belonging to or under the control of the parish council of the parish or parish meeting. (5) Every parochial elector of a parish in a rural district may, at all reasonable times, without payment, inspect and take copies of and extracts from all books, accounts, and documents belonging to or under the control of the district council of the district. 89.-The Acts specified in the second schedule to this Act are hereby repealed as from the appointed day to the extent in the third column of that schedule mentioned, and so much of any Act, whether public, general, or local and personal, as is inconsistent with this Act is also hereby repealed. FORM A. [Form of Statement to be used when none of the Adoptive Acts are in force, and the Parish Council have no Financial transactions with regard to Charities.] Parish Council for the Parish of In the Rural District of In the Administrative County of FINANCIAL STATEMENT. THE DISTRICT AUDITORS ACT 1879 (42 Vict. c. 6), AND THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73). STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS of the Parish Council for the above-named Parish for the period ended the 31st day of March 1895. Name of Clerk (or other person keeping the Accounts) Office Address. Post Town FORM RECEIPTS AND PAYMENTS by the During the period ended the 31st day of March 1895, such Parish Local Government Act 1894) and having RECEIPTS. RECEIPTS OTHER THAN FROM LOANS. From Overseers on Precept, viz.: From Poor Rates [MEM.-The sums asked for in the Precepts issued during pence in the £ on the rateable value of the parish, which Sums received from other Local Authorities: Name of Authority On what Account £ s d (The sums entered against the following headings are not to Rents of Allotments Other Rents Dividends and Interest.. Sales of Buildings and Lands Sales of Securities Fees, Fines, and Penalties Other Receipts (specifying them): £ s d PART sdsd A-continued. Parish Council for the Parish of. Council administering none of the Adoptive Acts (see sec. 7 of the no accounts in regard to Charities. I. PAYMENTS. PAYMENTS OTHER THAN OUT OF LOANS. £ sd £s d Payments to Joint Committees or other Local Authorities (naming them): Name of Authority On what Account £ s d (The sums entered against the following headings are not to include payments to other Local Authorities. See head- Salaries of Officers * Establishment Charges Cost of Meetings, Polls, and Elections + Allotments + Foopaths and Rights of Way + Commons, Open Spaces, Public Walks and Recreation Grounds, and Works connected therewith + Fire Engine and Fire Escape + Maintenance and Repair of Parish Property not specified under other headings Other Payments (specifying them) : * The cost of Stationery, Printing, Books, Postage, and Office Rent, Rates, and Taxes should be entered against this heading. + Where Salaries are paid exclusively to Officials employed on these or any other of the works and purposes enumerated on this page, the amounts of such salaries should be included in the items entered under the heading relating to the work or purpose, and not under the heading "Salaries of Officers." FORM A-continued. PART II. SUMMARY of the Receipts and Payments shown in the foregoing Statement. Receipts: Payments: Deduct: £ s d Payments under Precept to other Local Authorities, if any, £ s d Clerk to Parish Council, or 1895. s d I HEREBY CERTIFY that I have compared the entries in this Financial Statement with the Vouchers and other Documents relating thereto, and that the regulations with respect to such Statement have been duly complied with. I HEREBY FURTHER CERTIFY that I have ascertained by Audit the correctness of such Statement, and that the amount expended by the Parish Council during the period ended the 31st day of March 1895, as included in such Statement, and allowed by me at the Audit, is *. STAMP * The amount to be inserted in words at length. District Auditor. |