Category: E – Control over Public Funds
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 129. Power as to matters of evidence
(1) For the purposes of any investigation under section 128 of this Constitution, and subject to the provisions thereof, a House of Assembly or a committee appointed in...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 128. Power to conduct investigations
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Constitution, a House of Assembly shall have power by resolution published in its journal or in the Office Gazette of the...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 127. Tenure of office of Auditor-General
(1) A person holding the office of Auditor-General under section 126 (1) of this Constitution shall be removed from office by the Governor of the State acting on an...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 126. Appointment of Auditor-General
(1) The Auditor-General for a State shall be appointed by the Governor of the State on the recommendation of the State Civil Service Commission subject to confirmation...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 125. Audit of Public accounts
(1) There shall be an Auditor-General for each State who shall be appointed in accordance with the provisions of section 126 of this Constitution. (2) The public...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 124. Remuneration, etc. of the governor and certain other officers
(1) There shall be paid to the holders of the offices mentioned in this section such remuneration and salaries as may be prescribed by a House of Assembly, but not...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 123. Contingencies Fund
(1) A House of Assembly may by Law make provisions for the establishment of a Contingencies Fund for the State and for authorising the Governor, if satisfied that there...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 122. Authorisation of expenditure in default of appropriations
If the Appropriation Bill in respect of any financial year has not been passed into Law by the beginning of the financial year, the Governor may authorise the withdrawal...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 121. Authorisation of expenditure from Consolidated Revenue fund
(1) The Governor shall cause to be prepared and laid before the House of Assembly at any time before the commencement of each financial year estimates of the revenues...
Chapter 5. Part 2. Section 120. Establishment of Consolidated Revenue Fund
(1) All revenues or other moneys raised or received by a State (not being revenues or other moneys payable under this Constitution or any Law of a House of Assembly into...