Part IVMagistrates' courts

Administrative and financial arrangements

85Regulations as to accounts and audit

After section 62 of the 1979 Act there shall be inserted—

62ARegulations as to accounts and audit

1

The Lord Chancellor may by regulations made by statutory instrument require magistrates' courts committees—

a

to keep prescribed accounts and prescribed records in relation to those accounts, and

b

to cause any such accounts to be audited in accordance with the regulations.

2

In subsection (1) above “prescribed” means prescribed by the regulations.