F4PART IILEGAL ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE, AND LEGAL AID OTHER THAN FREE LEGAL AID AVAILABLE UNDER PART III
Administration and finance
Accounts and audit20
1
The Law Society shall keep such accounts with respect to the legal aid fund as theF1 Lord Chancellor may with the approval of the Treasury direct, and shall prepare in respect of each financial year a statement of accounts in such form as may be so directed.
2
The accounts shall be audited by persons to be appointed in respect of each financial year by theF1 Lord Chancellor and in accordance with a scheme of audit approved by theF1 Lord Chancellor, and the auditors shall be furnished by the Law Society with copies of the said statement and shall report to theF1 Lord Chancellor on the accounts and the said statement.
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A person shall not be appointed as an auditor in pursuance of paragraph (2) unless he is eligible for appointment as a F3statutory auditor under Part 42 of the Companies Act 2006.
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5
The Comptroller and Auditor-General—
a
shall examine every statement and report sent to him under paragraph (4);
b
may inspect the accounts kept with respect to the legal aid fund and any records relating thereto; and
c
shall certify every such statement and lay a copy of it together with his report thereon before Parliament.
Pt. 2 (to the extent that it remains in operation) repealed (1.4.2015) by Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/435), arts. 1(2), 49(5), Sch. 5 (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 48, Sch. 3); S.R. 2015/194, art. 2, Sch. (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 3)