Financial administration
3 (1) The corporation must establish and maintain an accounting system satisfactory to the minister and must, whenever required, render in the form specified by the minister detailed accounts of revenues and expenditures of the corporation for the period or to the day the minister designates.
(2) All books or records of account, documents and other financial records of the corporation must be open at all times for inspection by the minister or a person designated for that purpose by the minister.
(3) The minister charged with the administration of the Financial Administration Act may direct the Comptroller General to examine and report to Treasury Board on any or all of the financial and accounting operations of the corporation.
(4) Unless the Auditor General is appointed in accordance with the Auditor General Act as the auditor of the corporation, the corporation must appoint an auditor who is authorized to be the auditor of a company under sections 205 and 206 of the Business Corporations Act to audit the accounts of the corporation at least once each year.
(5) The costs of the audit referred to in subsection (4) must be paid by the corporation.