Section 19

The accounts of the Corporation shall be audited by the Auditor-General or by an auditor appointed annually by the Minister in consultation with the Auditor-General.

The Corporation’s auditor shall be paid out of the funds of the Corporation such remuneration, expenses or fees as the Minister, after consultation with the Corporation, shall direct.

The Corporation’s auditor shall be entitled to full and free access to all accounting and other records relating, directly or indirectly, to the financial transactions of the Corporation and may make copies of or extracts from any such accounting or other records.

The Corporation’s auditor or a person authorised by him may require any person to furnish him with such information which that person possesses or has access to as the auditor or the duly authorised person considers necessary for the purposes of the functions of the auditor under this Act.

An officer of the Corporation who refuses or fails without any reasonable cause to allow the Corporation’s auditor or a person authorised by him access to any accounting and other records of the Corporation in his custody or power or to give any information possessed by him as and when required or who otherwise hinders, obstructs or delays the Corporation’s auditor or any person authorised by him in the performance of his duties or the exercise of his powers shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $500 and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding $100 for every day or part thereof during which the offence continues after conviction. [20