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National Audit Act 1983

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 37 Cited in Amendments 162 Related
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JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1983 c. 44
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    • (1) There shall be a body of Commissioners named the Public Accounts Commission (in this Act referred to as “the Commission”) which shall perform the functions conferred on it by this Act.the Member of the House of Commons who is for the time being the Chairman of the Committee of Public Accounts;the Leader of the House of Commons; andseven other Members of the House of Commons appointed by the House, none of whom shall be a Minister of the Crown.(3) The Commission shall from time to time present to the House of Commons a report on the exercise of its functions.(4) Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect as respects the Commission.(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(7) Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect for supplementing the provisions of this section.
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    • (1) The Comptroller and Auditor General may carry out examinations into the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which any department, authority or other body to which this section applies has used its resources in discharging its functions.(2) Subsection (1) above shall not be construed as entitling the Comptroller and Auditor General to question the merits of the policy objectives of any department, authority or body in respect of which an examination is carried out.any department which is required to prepare resource accounts under section 5 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000;. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .any body required to keep accounts under any other authority or body whose accounts are required to be examined and certified by, or are open to the inspection of, the Comptroller and Auditor General by virtue of any enactment, including an enactment passed after this Act; andany authority or body which does not fall within section 7 below and whose accounts are required to be examined and certified by, or are open to the inspection of, the Comptroller and Auditor General by virtue of any agreement made, whether before or after the passing of this Act, between that authority or body and a Minister of the Crown.(3A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(4) Where the functions of the Comptroller and Auditor General in relation to any authority or body falling within subsection (3) (c) or (d) above are by the enactment or agreement in question restricted to particular activities of the authority or body, any examination under this section in respect of that authority or body shall be correspondingly restricted.the agreement was made by a Minister before the coming into force of this section and is not such as to allow any such examination; ora Minister makes an agreement after the coming into force of this section for the exercise by the Comptroller and Auditor General in respect of any authority or body of any such functions as are mentioned in subsection (3) (d) above,(6) Subsection (5) above shall not oblige a Minister to seek to obtain any rights except at the request of the Comptroller and Auditor General, and the obligations of a Minister under that subsection do not apply to any organisation which is the subject of an Order in Council under section 1 or 4 of the (7) In this section—
    • “authority” includes any person holding a public office;
    • “Minister” or “Minister of the Crown” includes any department falling within subsection (3) (a) above;
    • “policy”, in relation to any such department, includes any policy of the government so far as relating to the functions of that department;
    • and references to an agreement made by a Minister include references to conditions imposed by him in pursuance of any statutory power in that behalf, whether in connection with the provision of financial assistance or otherwise.

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