Government of Wales Act 1998

Valid from 01/04/2005

[F1 96B Certification of claims, returns etc. U.K.

(1) The Auditor General for Wales must, if so required by a relevant body, make arrangements for—

(a) certifying any claim or return in respect of a grant made or subsidy paid to that body by the Assembly, a Minister of the Crown or a public authority;

(b) certifying any account submitted by that body to the Assembly or a Minister of the Crown with a view to obtaining payment under a contract between that body and the Assembly or, as the case may be, the Minister;

(c) certifying that body’s calculation under paragraph 5(6)(a) of Schedule 8 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 of the amount of its non-domestic rating contribution for a financial year, and for certifying the amount calculated;

(d) certifying any return by that body which, by or under any enactment, is required or authorised to be certified by the body’s auditor or under arrangements made by the Auditor General for Wales.

(2) In this section—

• “public authority” means a body established by or under the Community Treaties or any enactment; and

• “relevant body” means—

  (a)

  a body whose accounts, or statements of accounts, are “auditable accounts” within the meaning given in section 95(7), or

  (b)

  a local government body in Wales (within the meaning given in section 12(1) of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 96A-96C inserted (1.4.2005) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (c. 23), ss. 2, 73; S.I. 2005/558, art. 2, Sch. 1