Section 7:
Reports and accounts of Development Councils.
(1) A Development Council shall prepare and
transmit to the Central Government and the Advisory Council, annually, a report setting out what has
been done in the discharge of its functions during the financial year last completed.
(2) The report shall include a statement of the accounts of the Development Council for that year, and
shall be transmitted as soon as accounts therefor have been audited, together with a copy of any report
made by the auditors on the accounts.
(3) The statement of account shall be in such form as may be prescribed, being a form which shall
conform to the best commercial standards, and the statement shall show the total of remuneration and
allowances paid during the year to members and officers of the Council.
(4) A copy of each such report of a Development Council, or made by the auditors on its accounts,
shall be laid before Parliament by the Central Government.