C1Part II Accounts and Audit of Public Bodies
Auditors’ reports and recommendations
13AF1Additional publicity for non-immediate reports
1
This section applies where under section 10(1) an auditor has sent a report that is not an immediate report to a body or its chairman, except where the body is a health service body.
2
The auditor may—
a
notify any person he thinks fit of the fact that he has made the report,
b
publish the report in any way he thinks fit, and
c
supply a copy of the report, or of any part of it, to any person he thinks fit.
3
From the time when the report is sent under section 10(1), but subject to subsection (4)—
a
the auditor shall ensure that any member of the public may—
i
inspect the report at all reasonable times without payment, and
ii
make a copy of the report or of any part of it;
b
any member of the public may require the auditor to supply him with a copy of the report, or of any part of it, on payment of a reasonable sum.
4
From the end of the period of one year beginning with the day when the report is sent under section 10(1), the obligations of the auditor under subsection (3)—
a
cease to be his obligations, but
b
become obligations of the Commission instead.
Pt. II: Power to apply conferred (31.8.2000) by 1997 c. 25, s. 59D(4)(b) (as inserted (31.8.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 83(2) (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 2000/1920, art. 3(b))
Pt. II (ss. 2-32) applied (with modifications) (1.4.2001) by S.I. 2001/734, art. 2
Pt. II (ss. 2-32) modified (1.4.2001) by S.I. 2001/734, art. 3