Version Superseded: 11/09/1998
Point in time view as at 01/02/1991. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Local Government Finance Act 1982, Paragraph 3.
3(1)The Secretary of State may give the Commission directions as to the discharge of its functions and the Commission shall give effect to any such directions.
(2)The Commission shall furnish the Secretary of State with such information relating to the discharge of its functions as he may require and for that purpose shall permit any person authorised by him to inspect and make copies of any accounts or other documents of the Commission and shall afford such explanation of them as that person or the Secretary of State may require.
(3)No direction shall be given by the Secretary of State and no information shall be required by him under this paragraph in respect of any particular body whose accounts are required to be audited in accordance with Part III of this Act; and before giving any direction under this paragraph the Secretary of State shall consult the Commission, such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned [F1or, as the case may require, such organisations connected with the health service as appear to him to be appropriate and (in either case)] such bodies of accountants as appear to him to be appropriate.
(4)The Secretary of State shall publish any direction given by him under this paragraph.
Textual Amendments
F1Words substituted by National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 (c. 19, SIF 113:2), s. 20(1), Sch. 4 para. 24(1)
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