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for all or any of the purposes of this Act, and, subject to the a.d. 1919. 

 terms thereof, may apply it for those purposes in accordance 

 with regulations made by them. 



(4) The Commissioners shall cause an account to be pre- 

 pared and transmitted to the Comptroller and Auditor General 

 for examination, on or before the thirtieth day of September in 

 every year, showing the sums paid into and the sums issued 

 out of the Forestry Fund in the financial year ending on the 

 thirty-first day of March preceding, and the Comptroller and 

 Auditor General shall certify and report on the same, and such 

 account and report shall be laid before Parliament by the 

 Commissioners on or before the thirty-first day of January in 

 the following year if Pariament be then sitting, and, if Parlia- 

 ment be then not sitting, within one week after Parliament is 

 next assembled. 



The Commissioners shall also cause to be laid before both 

 Houses of Parliament an annual report of their proceedings. 



(5) Payments out of and into the Forestry Fund, and all 

 other matters relating to the fund and money standing to the 

 credit of the fund, shall be made and regulated in such manner 

 as the Treasury may, by minute to be laid before Parliament, 

 direct. 



(6) The Treasury may from time to time invest any money, 

 standing to the credit of the Forestry Fund in any securities in 

 which trustees are by law authorised to invest trust funds. 



9. Any officer of the Commissioners or any other person Power of 

 authorised by them in that behalf, may on production, if so tospectiand, 

 required, of his authority, enter on and survey any land for the etc " 

 purpose of ascertaining whether it is suitable for afforestation 

 or for the purpose of inspecting any timber theteon, or for any 

 other purpose in connexion with the exercise of the powers and 

 performance of the duties of the Commissioners under this 

 Act. 



10. — (1) Where an officer appointed to the office of Forestry Pensions. 

 Commissioner with a salary holds at the time of his appoint- 

 ment an office in the civil service which entitles him to 

 superannuation under the Superannuation Acts, 1834 to 1914, 

 he shall be entitled on his ultimate retirement from the public 

 service to the same allowances as if he had continued to hold 

 the vacated appointment at the same rate of salary as when 

 the same was vacated, subject nevertheless to the conditions 



