Accounts and audit
2. Part II of the 1998 Act (accounts and audit of public bodies) shall apply to the Authority as if—
(a)the reference in section 2(2) to the accounts mentioned in Schedule 2 included the accounts of the Authority;
(b)in section 10(1):
(i)in subsection (2), after the words “the Mayor of London”, there were added the words “and (in the case of the Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority) to the Lord Chancellor”;
(ii)subsections (5) and (6) were omitted;
(c)in section 11(8), the reference to section 101 of the 1972 Act were a reference to section 30C(1) and (2) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997(2);
(d)in section 12:
(i)subsections (1), (2)(b), (3) and (4) were omitted; and
(ii)in subsection (2)(a), the reference to the meeting were a reference to a meeting held for the purposes of section 11;
(e)in section 17(3):
(i)in subsection (1)(b), the reference to the Secretary of State were a reference to the Lord Chancellor;
(ii)in subsection (7), there were added a new paragraph (h) as follows:
“(h)the Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority.”
(f)in section 18(1)(a), the reference to the Secretary of State were a reference to the Lord Chancellor;
(g)in section 25(2), the reference to the Secretary of State were a reference to the Lord Chancellor and the reference to a body subject to audit were a reference to the Authority.
Sections 10, 11 and 12 have been amended by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), Schedule 8, paragraphs 2, 3 and 5.
Section 30C was inserted into the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 by section 83(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22).
Sections 17 and 18 have been amended by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), Schedule 8, paragraphs 6 and 7. Those paragraphs are repealed and part of section 17 and the whole of section 18 are omitted and repealed by the Local Government Act 2000 (c. 22), section 90 and Schedule 6. Section 90 and the part of Schedule 6 that effects those repeals come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint.