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National Ports Act, 2005 (Act No. 12 of 2005)

Chapter 5 : Ports Regulator

43. Accounting and accountability

 

(1) The Regulator must exercise its fiscal, accounting and reporting duties in accordance with the provisions of the PFMA.

 

(2) The Regulator’s chief executive officer is the accounting officer of the Regulator and must—
(a) open an account in the name of the Regulator with a financial institution and deposit therein all moneys received in terms of section 42(1);
(b) cause proper records to be kept of all financial transactions, assets and
(c) as soon as possible after the end of each financial year, cause to be prepared a statement of the income and expenditure of the Regulator for that financial year and a balance sheet of its assets and liabilities as at the end of that financial year.

 

(3) The records, statement and balance sheet referred to in subsection (2) must be audited by the Auditor-General.

 

(4) The financial year of the Regulator ends on 31 March in each year.

 

(5) The Regulator must in each financial year, at a time determined by the Minister, submit a statement of its estimated income and expenditure for the following financial year to the Minister for his or her approval, granted with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance.