Article 15 Credits for the payment of sums out of the Fund

The provisions of this article shall cease to apply on 1st April 2000.

No payment shall be made out of the Fund except in accordance with credits granted on the Fund by the Comptroller and Auditor General.

Subject to paragraph (4), the Comptroller and Auditor General shall grant credits for the payment of sums out of the Fund from time to time at the request of the Secretary of State.

He shall not grant any such credit for the payment of any sum unless that sum may be paid out of the Fund under article 9 of this Order or under section 65 as modified by this Order.

Any person to whom sums are paid out of the Fund shall keep such sums until required for the purposes for which they are paid out only with the Paymaster General or with one or other of the banks determined by the Treasury under section 18 of the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1866 Act^f1.