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Article 134
 

Control by Auditing Court


1. The Auditing Court, within thirty days following the period appointed in subs. 1 of the foregoing section may require all those under obligation to lay accounts and reports pursuant to said section, to submit such supplementary clarifications and documents as the Court deems necessary.


2. Within two hundred days after the election the Auditing Court shall in the discharge of its examination duty, pronounce on the correctness of the election accounts. Where the Court has detected irregularities in said accounts or infringements of the limitations on election income and expenses, it may recommend denial or reduction of the State’s subsidy to the party, federation, coalition or grouping in question. If it also appears that a criminal offence may have been
committed, the Court shall notify the Attorney-General’s Office accordingly.


3. The Court shall within the same term send the results of its audit in a reasoned report comprising the statement of certified regular expenses of each party, federation, coalition, association or grouping of electors, to the Government and to the Commission to be set up under the First Transitional Provision of the Auditing Court Institutional Act 2/1982, of May 12.


4. Within one month from the sending of the Auditing Court’s report, the Government shall submit to Parliament an extraordinary appropriations bill for the aggregate of the subsidies granted, which shall be paid within one-hundred days from the passing of the bill by both Houses of Parliament.


5. Disbursement of the subsidies by the relevant body shall be effected in conformity with the Monitoring Report approved in Parliament by the Joint Committee for the Auditing Court and with the provisions of subss. 2, 3 and 4 of Section 127 of this Act.


 5 ADDED BY SECTION 5 OF INSTITUTIONAL ACT 1/2003, OF MARCH 10