Audit Commission Act 1998

10 Transmission and consideration of section 8 reports

(1) Any report under section 8 shall be sent by the auditor to the body concerned or (if it is a parish meeting) to its chairman—

(a) forthwith if it is an immediate report;

(b) otherwise not later than 14 days after conclusion of the audit.

(2) A copy of the report shall be sent by the auditor to the Commission and (in the case of a health service body) to the Secretary of State—

(a) forthwith if it is an immediate report;

(b) otherwise not later than 14 days after conclusion of the audit.

(3) The body concerned shall take the report into consideration—

(a) in accordance with sections 11 and 12, or

(b) if section 11 does not apply to the body, as soon as practicable after receiving it.

(4) The agenda supplied to the members for the meeting of the body at which the report is considered shall be accompanied by the report.

(5) The report shall not be excluded—

(a) from the matter supplied under section 1(4)(b) of the [1960 c. 67.] Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960 or section 100B(7) of the 1972 Act (supply of agenda etc. to newspapers); or

(b) from the documents open to inspection under section 100B(1) of the 1972 Act (public access to agenda and reports before meetings).

(6) Part VA of the 1972 Act has effect in relation to the report as if section 100C(1)(d) of that Act (public access to copies of reports for six years after meeting) were not limited to so much of the report as relates to an item during which the meeting was open to the public.