Part III Miscellaneous and Supplementary
F110 Form of appropriation accounts.
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F211 Examination of appropriation accounts.
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12 Examination of accounts specified by order.
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Section 3 of the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1921 (examination of accounts specified by Treasury minute) shall be amended as follows.
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For subsection (1) there shall be substituted—
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The Comptroller and Auditor General shall examine the accounts of any person or body specified by an order made by the Treasury by statutory instrument; and no such order shall be made unless a draft of it has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.
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In subsection (2) for the words “the accountant” there shall be substituted the words “the person or body in question.”
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Subsections (3) and (4) shall cease to have effect.
C1C2C3C4C5C6C7C813 Interpretation of references to Committee of Public Accounts.
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If at any time after the passing of this Act—
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the name of the Committee of Public Accounts is changed; or
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the functions discharged by that Committee at the passing of this Act, or functions substantially corresponding thereto, are discharged by a different Committee of the House of Commons,
references in this Act to the Committee of Public Accounts shall be construed as a reference to that Committee by its new name or, as the case may be, to the Committee for the time being discharging those functions.
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Any question arising under this section shall be determined by the Speaker of the House of Commons.
14 Repeals.
The enactments mentioned in Schedule 5 to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
15 Short title and commencement.
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This Act may be cited as the National Audit Act 1983.
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F3... this Act shall come into force on 1st January 1984.
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