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Accounts.
17. (1) The Corporation shall keep proper and audited books
of account and proper records in relation to them in a form approved by the Auditor-General.
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(2) The books of account kept under subsection (1) shall
within three months after the end of each financial year, be audited
by the Auditor-General or an auditor appointed by him.
Financial year
of Corporation.
18. The financial year of the Corporation shall be the same as
the financial year of Government.
Annual
report.
19. (1) The Corporation shall, as soon as possible but not
later than three months after the end of each financial year, submit to
the Minister a report of the activities, operations, undertakings,
property and finances of the Corporation for that year, including the
Auditor-General’s report and a list of persons granted licences in
that year.
(2) The Minister shall, within thirty days of the receipt of
the report referred to in subsection (1), lay a copy before Parliament.
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Transfer of
assets.
20. There is hereby transferred tothe Sierra Leone Broadcasting
Corporation, without more, the property and other assets of the Sierra
Leone Broadcasting Service which shall cease to exist in that name in
the coming into force of this Act.
Transitional
provisions.
21. Any act or thing done by the Sierra Leone Broadcasting
Service prior to the commencement of this Act, shall if consistent
with this Act, be deemed to have been done or made under this Act.
Regulations.
22. The Minister may, by statutory instrument, make regulations
for the effective implementation of thisAct.
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Passed in Parliament this 17th day of December , in the year of our Lord two
thousand and Nine.
VICTOR A. KAMARA,
Clerk of Parliament.
THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill
which has passed Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct printed copy
of the said Bill.
VICTOR A. KAMARA,
Clerk of Parliament.
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE.
GAZETTE NO. 8 OF 28TH JANUARY, 2010.