Version Superseded: 03/05/2007
Point in time view as at 01/09/2006. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Government of Wales Act 1998, Section 92 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 02 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
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(2)The Auditor General for Wales mayF2. . . appoint such staff or secure the provision of such services as he considers necessary for assisting him in the exercise of his functions.
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(4)The staff of the Auditor General for Wales shall be appointed on such terms and conditions as he may determine; and he shall pay his staff such remuneration as may be provided for by or under their terms of appointment.
(5)In Schedule 1 to the M1Superannuation Act 1972 (employments etc. to which section 1 of that Act applies), at the appropriate place in the list of “Other Bodies” insert—
“Employment as a member of the staff of the Auditor General for Wales.”
(6)[F4The Auditor General for Wales] shall pay to the Minister for the Civil Service, at such times as [F5the Minister] may direct, such sums as [F5the Minister] may determine in respect of any increase attributable to subsection (5) in the sums payable out of money provided by Parliament under the M2Superannuation Act 1972.
(7)No member of the staff of the Auditor General for Wales shall be regarded as holding office under Her Majesty or as exercising any functions on behalf of the Crown; but each member of his staff shall be taken to be a Crown servant for the purposes of the M3Official Secrets Act 1989.
[F6(8)Any function of the Auditor General for Wales may be exercised by—
(a)a member of his staff, or
(b)a person providing services to him,
who is authorised by the Auditor General for Wales for that purpose.
(8A)Any function of the Auditor General for Wales may be exercised jointly by him and a person providing services to him who is authorised by him for that purpose.
(8B)Any provision made under subsection (8) for the exercise of any function does not affect the responsibility of the Auditor General for Wales on whose behalf the function is exercised.]
(9)An authority under subsection (8) to certify or report on accounts (or statements of accounts) for the [F7within subsection (9A)]—
(a)shall extend only to accounts (or statements) which the presiding officer has certified to the Assembly that the Auditor General for Wales is unable to certify or report on himself, and
(b)shall cease on a vacancy arising in the office of Auditor General for Wales.
[F8(9A)Accounts (or statements of accounts) are within this subsection if, in accordance with provision made by or under this or any other Act, they—
(a)fall to be examined by the Auditor General for Wales, and
(b)are required to be laid before the Assembly.]
(10)The reference in subsection (9)(a) to the presiding officer includes a reference to any person for the time being performing the functions of presiding officer.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 92(1) repealed (1.4.2005) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), ss. 9(1)(2), 72, 73, Sch. 4; S.I. 2005/558, art. 2, Sch. 1 (subject to Sch. 2)
F2Words in s. 92(2) repealed (1.4.2005) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), ss. 72, 73, Sch. 4; S.I. 2005/558, art. 2, Sch. 1 (subject to Sch. 2)
F3S. 92(3) repealed (1.4.2005) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), ss. 9(1)(2), 72, 73, Sch. 4; S.I. 2005/558, art. 2, Sch. 1 (subject to Sch. 2)
F4Words in s. 92(6) substituted (1.4.2005) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), ss. 9(3)(a), 73; S.I. 2005/558, art. 2, Sch. 1
F5Words in s. 92(6) substituted (1.4.2005) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), ss. 9(3)(b), 73; S.I. 2005/558, art. 2, Sch. 1
F6S. 92(8)-(8B) substituted (1.4.2005) for s. 92(8) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), ss. 9(4), 73; S.I. 2005/558, art. 2, Sch. 1
F7Words in s. 92(9) substituted (1.4.2005) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), ss. 9(5), 73; S.I. 2005/558, art. 2, Sch. 1
F8S. 92(9A) inserted (1.4.2005) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), ss. 9(6), 73; S.I. 2005/558, art. 2, Sch. 1
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 92(8) extended (1.4.2005) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), {ss. 70)}, 73; S.I. 2005/558, art. 2, Sch. 1
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