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The Public Bodies (Merger of the Gambling Commission and the National Lottery Commission) Order 2013

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Annual accounts

7.—(1) The Gambling Commission must prepare a statement of accounts of the National Lottery Commission in respect of any financial year (or part of any financial year) for which no statement of accounts was prepared and sent under paragraph 11(3) of Schedule 2A to the 1993 Act(1) to the Secretary of State and the Comptroller and Auditor General prior to the merger date.

(2) A statement of accounts prepared by the Gambling Commission under paragraph (1) must comply with any directions that may be given by the Secretary of State as to the information to be contained in such a statement, the manner in which such information is to be presented or the methods and principles according to which such a statement is to be prepared.

(3) Copies of a statement of accounts must be sent to the Secretary of State and the Comptroller and Auditor General within such period after the merger date as the Secretary of State may direct.

(4) The Comptroller and Auditor General must examine, certify and report on a statement of accounts, and must lay copies of each such statement and report before Parliament.

(5) The Secretary of State must not give a direction under paragraph (2) or (3) without the approval of the Treasury.

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Schedule 2A to the 1993 Act was inserted by paragraph 7 of Schedule 1 to the National Lottery Act 1998.

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