THE ORISSA LOCAL FUND AUDIT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1976

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREAMBLE

SECTIONS

1. Short title
2. Amendment of Section 2
3. Amendment of Section 4
 THE ORISSA LOCAL FUND AUDIT (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1976

(Odisha Act 23 of 1976)

AN ACT TO AMEND THE ORISSA LOCAL FUND AUDIT ACT, 1948

` Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Orissa in the Twenty-Seventh Year of the
Republic of India as follows :–

1. Short title- This Act may be called the Orissa Local Fund Audit (Amendment) Act, 1976
2. Amendment of Section 2– In Section 2 of the Orissa Local Fund Audit Act, 1948
(hereinafter referred to as the principal Act), for clause (b), the following clause shall be
substituted, namely:–
“(b) ‘Examiner of Local Accounts’ means the Examiner of Local Accounts appointed
under Section 4 and includes any officer for the time being performing the duties of
the Examiner of Local Accounts ; and”

3. Amendment of Section 4–– For Section 4 of the Principal Act, the following Section shall
be substituted, namely––

“4. Appointment of Examiner, Deputy Examiner and Assistant Examiner of Local

Accounts and Auditors– (1) The State Government may, by notification, appoint an officer of the
State Government to be the Examiner of Local Accounts and they may also appoint such number
of Deputy Examiner of Local Accounts and Assistant Examiner of Loca1 Accounts as they deem
necessary.

(2) The Deputy Examiner of Local Accounts and the Assistant Examiner of Local
Accounts shall exercise such powers and perform such functions of the Examiner of Local
Accounts as the State Government may, by notification, assign.
(3) The Examiner of Local Accounts may, with the approval of the State
Government, appoint such number of Auditors of Local Fund as he considers necessary”.

By order of the Governor

L. MOHAPATRA
Secretary to Government