{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992/section-34",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992/section-34.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Will4/1-2/60",
  "legislation_title": "Vestries Act 1831(repealed 1.6.1992)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/vestries-act-1831repealed-161992",
  "path": "section/34",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "34",
  "heading": "Mode of audit.",
  "text": "The aforesaid auditors of accounts shall meet twice at least in each year, at the board room of the vestry, and (a majority of the said auditors being present at such meetings) shall proceed to audit the accounts of the said vestry for the preceding half year, in presence of the vestry clerk; and the said vestry are hereby required, by their said clerk, to produce and lay before the said auditors at every such meeting a true and just statement or account in writing, accompanied with proper vouchers of all sums of money which may have come to the hands of the said vestry or of their treasurer, and also of all monies paid, laid out, or expended by them, or by any churchwardens, overseers, surveyors, or other persons by them employed, and responsible to the said vestry, since the last period up to which the accounts of the said vestry were audited; and in all parishes in which other boards shall have control over any part of the parochial expenditure, the said auditors shall have the same power of examining the accounts and officers thereof as of examining the accounts and officers of the vestry, and shall audit the accounts of the said boards in the same manner as they audit the accounts of the said vestries.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/1-2/60/section/34",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:52:20.915885+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}