20 Extension of functions etc. of Audit Commission to cover the health service.E+W
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(2)In section 98 of the principal Act (accounts and audit),—
(a)in subsection (1), in the words following paragraph (e) for the words from “appointed” to “Comptroller” there shall be substituted “appointed by the Audit Commission for Local Authorities and the National Health Service in England and Wales and the Comptroller”;
[F2(b)after subsection (2A) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection—
“(2B)So far as relates to allotted sums paid to the members of a fund-holding practice—
(a)accounts shall be kept in such form as the Secretary of State may with the approval of the Treasury direct;
(b)the Comptroller and Auditor General may examine the accounts and the records relating to them and any report of the auditor on them;
(c)in respect of each financial year, annual accounts in such form as the Secretary of State may with the approval of the Treasury direct shall be prepared and submitted to the relevant Family Health Services Authority; and
(d)in respect of each financial year, each Family Health Services Authority shall prepare, in such form as the Secretary of State may with the approval of the Treasury direct, and include in its own accounts, a summarised version of the accounts submitted to the Authority under paragraph (c) above.”;]
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Textual Amendments
F1S. 20(1)(3)-(8) repealed (11.9.1998) by 1998 c. 18, ss. 54(3), 55(2), Sch. 5
F2S. 20(2)(b) repealed (1.10.1999 for E. and otherwiseprosp.) by 1999 c. 8, ss. 65(2), Sch. 4 para. 83(6), Sch. 5; S.I. 1999/2540, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. 1
F3S. 20(2)(c)(d) repealed (1.4.1996) by 1995 c. 17, s. 5(1)(2), SCh. 3 (with Sch. 2 para. 6)