http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011An Act to make provision for a Charter for Budget Responsibility and for the publication of Financial Statements and Budget Reports; to establish the Office for Budget Responsibility; to make provision about the Comptroller and Auditor General and to establish a body corporate called the National Audit Office; to amend Schedules 5 and 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 in relation to the Auditor General for Wales; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-10-17Expert Participation2024-10-15 Part 2National audit<Emphasis>Comptroller and Auditor General</Emphasis>Employment <Abbreviation Expansion="Et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc</Abbreviation> of former Comptroller and Auditor General151This section applies to a person who was appointed as Comptroller and Auditor General under this Part but who no longer holds that office.2Before—ataking up an office or position of a description specified by the Public Accounts Commission, orbentering into an agreement or other arrangements of such a description,the person must consult such person as is specified by the Commission.3Subsections (4) and (5) apply for the period of 2 years starting with the day after that on which the person ceased to be Comptroller and Auditor General.4The person must not—ahold an office or position to which a person may be appointed, or recommended for appointment, by or on behalf of the Crown, orbbe a member, director, officer or employee of a body or other person whose accounts are required by a statutory provision to be audited or examined by, or to be open to the inspection of, the Comptroller and Auditor General.5The person must not, in any capacity, provide services to—athe Crown or any body or other person acting on behalf of the Crown, orba body or other person whose accounts are required by a statutory provision to be audited or examined by, or to be open to the inspection of, the Comptroller and Auditor General.6But subsections (4) and (5) do not prevent a person from holding any of the following offices—aAuditor General for Scotland;bAuditor General for Wales;cComptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland.S. 15 in force at 1.4.2012 by S.I. 2011/2576, art. 5
This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.
<Legislation xmlns="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4" NumberOfProvisions="154" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/legislation http://www.legislation.gov.uk/schema/legislation.xsd" SchemaVersion="1.0" RestrictExtent="E+W+S+N.I." RestrictStartDate="2024-10-15">
<ukm:Metadata xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:ukm="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/namespaces/metadata">
<dc:identifier>http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15</dc:identifier>
<dc:title>Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011</dc:title>
<dc:description>An Act to make provision for a Charter for Budget Responsibility and for the publication of Financial Statements and Budget Reports; to establish the Office for Budget Responsibility; to make provision about the Comptroller and Auditor General and to establish a body corporate called the National Audit Office; to amend Schedules 5 and 7 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 in relation to the Auditor General for Wales; and for connected purposes.</dc:description>
<dc:type>text</dc:type>
<dc:format>text/xml</dc:format>
<dc:language>en</dc:language>
<dc:publisher>Statute Law Database</dc:publisher>
<dc:modified>2024-10-17</dc:modified>
<dc:contributor>Expert Participation</dc:contributor>
<dct:valid>2024-10-15</dct:valid>
<atom:link rel="self" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/data.xml" type="application/xml"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/resources" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/resources" title="More Resources"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/notes" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/notes" title="Explanatory Notes"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/notes/toc" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/notes/contents" title="Explanatory Notes Table of Contents"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/act" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4" title="whole act"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/introduction" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/introduction" title="introduction"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/body" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/body" title="body"/>
<atom:link rel="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/def/navigation/schedules" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/schedules" title="schedules"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/rdf+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/data.rdf" title="RDF/XML"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/data.akn" title="AKN"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/data.xht" title="HTML snippet"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/data.htm" title="Website (XHTML) Default View"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="text/csv" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/data.csv" title="CSV"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/pdf" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/data.pdf" title="PDF"/>
<atom:link rel="alternate" type="application/akn+xhtml" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/data.html" title="HTML5 snippet"/>
<atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/tableOfContents" hreflang="en" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/contents" title="Table of Contents"/>
<atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasVersion" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/enacted" title="enacted"/>
<atom:link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/hasVersion" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/2012-04-01" title="2012-04-01"/>
<atom:link rel="up" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4" title="Entire legislation"/>
<atom:link rel="prev" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/14" title="Provision; Section 14"/>
<atom:link rel="prevInForce" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/14" title="Provision; Section 14"/>
<atom:link rel="next" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/16" title="Provision; Section 16"/>
<atom:link rel="nextInForce" href="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/16" title="Provision; Section 16"/>
<ukm:PrimaryMetadata>
<ukm:DocumentClassification>
<ukm:DocumentCategory Value="primary"/>
<ukm:DocumentMainType Value="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct"/>
<ukm:DocumentStatus Value="revised"/>
</ukm:DocumentClassification>
<ukm:Year Value="2011"/>
<ukm:Number Value="4"/>
<ukm:EnactmentDate Date="2011-03-22"/>
<ukm:ISBN Value="9780105404118"/>
</ukm:PrimaryMetadata>
<ukm:Notes>
<ukm:Note IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/notes" DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/notes"/>
<ukm:Alternatives>
<ukm:Alternative URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/pdfs/ukpgaen_20110004_en.pdf" Date="2011-04-04" Title="Explanatory Note" Size="152526"/>
</ukm:Alternatives>
</ukm:Notes>
<ukm:Alternatives>
<ukm:Alternative URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/pdfs/ukpga_20110004_en.pdf" Date="2011-03-23" Size="169000"/>
</ukm:Alternatives>
<ukm:Statistics>
<ukm:TotalParagraphs Value="154"/>
<ukm:BodyParagraphs Value="34"/>
<ukm:ScheduleParagraphs Value="120"/>
<ukm:AttachmentParagraphs Value="0"/>
<ukm:TotalImages Value="0"/>
</ukm:Statistics>
</ukm:Metadata>
<Primary>
<Body DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/body" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/body" NumberOfProvisions="34" RestrictStartDate="2024-10-15">
<Part DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/part/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/part/2" NumberOfProvisions="18" id="part-2" RestrictStartDate="2012-04-01">
<Number>
<Strong>Part 2</Strong>
</Number>
<Title>National audit</Title>
<Pblock DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/part/2/crossheading/comptroller-and-auditor-general" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/part/2/crossheading/comptroller-and-auditor-general" NumberOfProvisions="10" id="part-2-crossheading-comptroller-and-auditor-general" RestrictStartDate="2012-04-01">
<Title>
<Emphasis>Comptroller and Auditor General</Emphasis>
</Title>
<P1group RestrictStartDate="2012-04-01">
<Title>
Employment
<Abbreviation Expansion="Et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc</Abbreviation>
of former Comptroller and Auditor General
</Title>
<P1 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15" id="section-15">
<Pnumber PuncAfter="">
<CommentaryRef Ref="key-adba60bae84f69463879f89992abf362"/>
15
</Pnumber>
<P1para>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/1" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/1" id="section-15-1">
<Pnumber>1</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>This section applies to a person who was appointed as Comptroller and Auditor General under this Part but who no longer holds that office.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/2" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/2" id="section-15-2">
<Pnumber>2</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Before—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/2/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/2/a" id="section-15-2-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>taking up an office or position of a description specified by the Public Accounts Commission, or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/2/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/2/b" id="section-15-2-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>entering into an agreement or other arrangements of such a description,</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<Text>the person must consult such person as is specified by the Commission.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/3" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/3" id="section-15-3">
<Pnumber>3</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>Subsections (4) and (5) apply for the period of 2 years starting with the day after that on which the person ceased to be Comptroller and Auditor General.</Text>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/4" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/4" id="section-15-4">
<Pnumber>4</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The person must not—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/4/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/4/a" id="section-15-4-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>hold an office or position to which a person may be appointed, or recommended for appointment, by or on behalf of the Crown, or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/4/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/4/b" id="section-15-4-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>be a member, director, officer or employee of a body or other person whose accounts are required by a statutory provision to be audited or examined by, or to be open to the inspection of, the Comptroller and Auditor General.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/5" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/5" id="section-15-5">
<Pnumber>5</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>The person must not, in any capacity, provide services to—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/5/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/5/a" id="section-15-5-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>the Crown or any body or other person acting on behalf of the Crown, or</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/5/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/5/b" id="section-15-5-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>a body or other person whose accounts are required by a statutory provision to be audited or examined by, or to be open to the inspection of, the Comptroller and Auditor General.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
<P2 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/6" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/6" id="section-15-6">
<Pnumber>6</Pnumber>
<P2para>
<Text>But subsections (4) and (5) do not prevent a person from holding any of the following offices—</Text>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/6/a" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/6/a" id="section-15-6-a">
<Pnumber>a</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>Auditor General for Scotland;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/6/b" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/6/b" id="section-15-6-b">
<Pnumber>b</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>Auditor General for Wales;</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
<P3 DocumentURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/6/c" IdURI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15/6/c" id="section-15-6-c">
<Pnumber>c</Pnumber>
<P3para>
<Text>Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland.</Text>
</P3para>
</P3>
</P2para>
</P2>
</P1para>
</P1>
</P1group>
</Pblock>
</Part>
</Body>
</Primary>
<Commentaries>
<Commentary id="key-adba60bae84f69463879f89992abf362" Type="I">
<Para>
<Text>
<CitationSubRef id="cjr4vuw61-00148" SectionRef="section-15" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2011/4/section/15">S. 15</CitationSubRef>
in force at 1.4.2012 by
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2011/2576" id="cjr4vuw61-00149" Class="UnitedKingdomStatutoryInstrument" Year="2011" Number="2576" Title="The Budget Responsibility and National Audit Act 2011 (Commencement No.2) Order 2011">S.I. 2011/2576</Citation>
,
<CitationSubRef CitationRef="cjr4vuw61-00149" id="cjr4vuw61-00150" SectionRef="article-5" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2011/2576/article/5" Operative="true">art. 5</CitationSubRef>
</Text>
</Para>
</Commentary>
</Commentaries>
</Legislation>