Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011

Assembly Measures

3 In Part 1 (matters), under Field 14 (public administration) insert—

• “Matter 14.1

  The following provision relating to the Auditor General—

  (a)

  the following aspects of the Auditor General’s terms of appointment—

  (i)

  the period of the appointment;

  (ii)

  salary, allowances and superannuation benefits;

  (iii)

  pensions and gratuities payable after a person has ceased to be Auditor General;

  (b)

  the number of times a person may be appointed as Auditor General;

  (c)

  restrictions on the other offices and positions which may be held by the Auditor General;

  (d)

  activities of a person who has been (but no longer is) Auditor General;

  (e)

  provision requiring the Auditor General—

  (i)

  to aim to do things efficiently and cost-effectively;

  (ii)

  to have regard, as the Auditor General considers appropriate, to the standards and principles that an expert professional provider of accounting or auditing services would be expected to follow;

  (f)

  the authorisation of persons to exercise functions of the Auditor General on the Auditor General’s behalf (including during a vacancy in the office);

  (g)

  the oversight or supervision of the Auditor General or of the exercise of the Auditor General’s functions;

  (h)

  the provision or use of resources for the purposes of the Auditor General’s functions including (in particular)—

  (i)

  the employment and use of staff;

  (ii)

  the procurement and use of services;

  (iii)

  the holding of documents or information;

  (iv)

  the keeping of records;

  (i)

  the charging of fees or other amounts in relation to functions of—

  (i)

  the Auditor General, or

  (ii)

  auditors appointed by the Auditor General under an enactment;

  (j)

  the restatement of any law relating to the Auditor General.”