FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR 1954/REPORT OF DIRECTOR OF AUDIT, MALAYA(Reference to Public Accounts Committee)

The Financial Secretary (Mr T. M. Hart): Sir, I beg to move,

That this Assembly, in accordance with paragraph (2) of Standing Order 61, resolves that the Financial Statements for the year 1954, as contained in Sessional Paper No. Cmd. 3 of 1956, together with the Report of the Director of Audit, Malaya, thereon, as contained in Sessional Paper No. Cmd. 7 of 1956, should be referred to the Public Accounts Committee.

Sir, the Financial Statements for 1954, together with the Director of Audit's Report, were referred to the Public Accounts Committee by a resolution of this Assembly during its last Session on the 7th of March, 1956. The Report of the Public Accounts Committee was tabled as Sessional Paper No. L.A. 8 of 1956. The Report stated that it had not been possible for the Committee to conclude its investigations during the Session and recommended that the accounts and the Director of Audit's Report should be referred once more to the Public Accounts Committee after the start of the new Session of the Assembly. The object of this motion, Sir, is to give effect to this recommendation. Sir, I beg to move.

Mr Chew Swee Kee: I second it.

Question put, and agreed to.

Resolved,

That this Assembly, in accordance with paragraph (2) of Standing Order 61, resolves that the Financial Statements for the year 1954, as contained in Sessional Paper No. Cmd. 3 of 1956, together with the Report of the Director of Audit, Malaya, thereon, as contained in Sessional Paper No. Cmd. 7 of 1956, should be referred to the Public Accounts Committee.