Part III Miscellaneous and Supplementary

15 Short title and commencement.

1

This Act may be cited as the National Audit Act 1983.

2

Subject to subsection (3) below, this Act shall come into force on 1st January 1984.

3

The repeal of section 8(2) of the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1921 shall not come into force until the end of the period of nine months beginning with that date; and until the end of that period section 3(6) above shall have effect as if for the words “shall be construed as a reference to the National Audit Office” there were substituted the words “shall be construed as including a reference to the National Audit Office”.