{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/professions-supplementary-to-medicine-act-1960/schedule-FIRST/paragraph-18",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Eliz2/8-9/66",
  "legislation_title": "Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act 1960",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/professions-supplementary-to-medicine-act-1960",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Any fees payable under this Act in respect of the entry or retention of a name on a register shall be paid to the Council, and any expenses of the Council shall be defrayed out of the sums received by the Council either on account of those fees or otherwise.\n(2) The Council shall furnish each board with such sums as the board may require for defraying—\n(a) any remuneration or allowances which the board is authorised by this Act to pay; and\n(b) any costs which the board is directed to pay on an appeal under section nine of this Act; and\n(c) any other expenses incurred by the board with the approval of the Council,\nand each board shall furnish the Council with such evidence as the Council may reasonably require of all payments made by the board out of sums furnished by the Council.\n(3) The Council shall keep proper accounts of all sums received or paid by it, and proper records in relation to those accounts (including records of the evidence furnished as aforesaid), and its accounts for each financial year of the Council shall be audited by auditors appointed by the Council; and as soon as any accounts of the Council have been audited, the Council shall cause them to be published and shall send a copy of them to the Privy Council together with a copy of any report of the auditors thereon.\n(4) A person shall not be appointed auditor under this paragraph unless he is eligible for appointment as a company auditor under section 25 of the Companies Act 1989.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 18(4) substituted (01.10.1991) by S.I. 1991/1997, reg. 2, Sch. para. 8 (with reg. 4)."
    }
  ],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}