Part 5Finance
Treatment of accounts and audit reports etc.
143I1Audit Committee reports
1
The Audit Committee may consider, and lay before the Assembly a report on, any accounts, statement of accounts or report laid before the Assembly by—
a
the Auditor General, or
b
the auditor appointed under paragraph 14 of Schedule 8 (auditor of Auditor General's accounts).
2
If requested to do so by the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, the Audit Committee may—
a
on behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts take evidence from any of the persons mentioned in subsection (3), and
b
report to the Committee of Public Accounts and transmit to that Committee any evidence so taken.
3
The persons referred to in subsection (2)(a) are—
a
the principal accounting officer for the Welsh Ministers,
b
the principal accounting officer for the Assembly Commission, and
c
additional accounting officers designated under section 133 or 138.