12 No. 1 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. The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation Act 2010 (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. PART VI –MISCELLANEOUS 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. No. 1 The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation Act 2010 13 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.