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contractor has failed to supply the necessary information, in such proportions as the Authority estimate to be appropriate.

(4) The Authority shall prepare in respect of each financial year—

(a) an account showing the additional payments received under all their contracts with programme contractors for the provision of television programmes and of the sums paid into the Consolidated Funds of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland respectively under subsection (3) in respect of those payments, and

(b) an account showing the additional payments received under all their contracts with programme contractors for the provision of local sound broadcasts and of the sums paid as mentioned in paragraph (a) in respect of those payments;

and shall send those accounts to the Comptroller and Auditor General not later than the end of November following the year; and the Comptroller and Auditor General shall examine, certify and report on each of those accounts and lay copies of it, together with his report, before each House of Parliament.

Instalments payable on account by programme contractors in respect of additional payments.

34.—(1) It shall be the duty of the Authority in framing the contracts with the various programme contractors to include terms enabling the Authority to estimate before the beginning of an accounting period the additional payments due for that accounting period, and requiring the programme contractor to pay the estimated amount by monthly instalments throughout the accounting period.

(2) The Authority shall in particular include terms—

(a) authorising the Authority to revise any estimate on one or more occasions, and to adjust the instalments payable by the programme contractor to take account of the revised estimate;

(b) providing for the adjustment of any overpayment or underpayment when the amount due from the programme contractor for the accounting period has been finally ascertained;

(c) ensuring that any amount due under the contract is paid promptly and in full.

(3) Where any amount falls to be paid to a programme conto adjust an overpayment made by him, that amount tractor shall be paid to the programme contractor out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom or, if the contract is for the supply of programmes to be broadcast from stations all of which are in Northern Ireland, out of the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland.