SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 4 Supplementary provisions relating to dissolution of Broadcasting Complaints Commission and Broadcasting Standards Council
Final accounts and annual report of existing bodies
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The Broadcasting Complaints Commission shall, as soon as possible after the transfer date, prepare such a statement of accounts as is mentioned in paragraph 12 of Schedule 13 to the 1990 Act (accounts and audit) in respect of the period between—
a
the end of the financial year for which the last such statement of accounts was prepared by them under that paragraph, and
b
the transfer date,
whether that period is a financial year or not; and that paragraph shall continue to apply on and after that date in relation to the auditing of accounts kept in accordance with that paragraph in respect of that period.
2
The Broadcasting Complaints Commission shall, as soon as possible after the transfer date, prepare and submit to the Secretary of State, in accordance with section 148 of the 1990 Act (annual reports), such a report as is mentioned in subsection (1) of that section in respect of the period between—
a
the end of the financial year for which the last such report was prepared by them under that section, and
b
the transfer date,
whether that period is a financial year or not.
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Subsection (2) of that section shall apply to any such report as if the reference to the statement of accounts for the year in question included references to the statement of accounts prepared in accordance with sub-paragraph (1).