Section 3P. Accounts and Audit.

(1) The Slum Rehabilitation Authority shall maintain books of accounts and other books in relation to the business and transaction in such form and in such manner, as may be prescribed. (2) The accounts of Slum Rehabilitation Authority shall be audited by an Auditor appointed by the State Government, in consultation with the Comptroller and Auditor General of India. (3) Within nine months from the end of the financial year the Slum Rehabilitation Authority shall send a copy of the accounts audited together with a copy of the report of the Auditor thereon to the State Government. (4) The State Government shall cause the accounts of the Slum Rehabilitation Authority together with the audit report thereon forwarded to it under sub-section (3) to be laid before each House of the State Legislature as far as possible before the expiry of the year next succeeding the year to which the accounts and the report relate.