The Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000 (Economy, efficiency and effectiveness examinations) (Specified bodies etc.) Order 2002

Made: 28th February 2002

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 4th March 2002

Coming into force: 1st April 2002

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 23(2)(b) and (3) of the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000[^f00001], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, reasonably believing that, in the case of a body or office-holder specified in this Order, section 23(3)(a) of that Act is satisfied, and in the case of a class of body or office-holder specified in this Order, that section 23(3)(a) of that Act is satisfied in relation to at least half of those in the class, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000 (Economy, efficiency and effectiveness examinations) (Specified bodies etc.) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 1st April 2002.

Specified bodies etc.

2

The bodies or office-holders, and classes of bodies or office-holders, listed in the Schedule to this Order, are specified under section 23(2)(b) (bodies etc. specified for economy, efficiency and effectiveness examinations) of the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000.

SCHEDULE — BODIES OR OFFICE-HOLDERS, AND CLASSES OF BODIES OR OFFICE-HOLDERS, SPECIFIED UNDER SECTION 23(2)(b) OF THE PUBLIC FINANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY (SCOTLAND) ACT 2000

• Community Learning Scotland (a company limited by guarantee registered under company number SC098117)

• Edinburgh World Heritage Trust

• Forward Scotland Limited (a company limited by guarantee registered under company number SC129402)

• Glasgow West Conservation Trust

• Hannah Research Institute

• Higher education institutions, being institutions designated under section 44(2) of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992[^f00002]

• Learning and Teaching Scotland (a company limited by guarantee registered under company number SC200241)

• Local enterprise companies, being companies with whom there is in force an agreement which has been made in pursuance of section 19 of the Enterprise and New Towns (Scotland) Act 1990[^f00003] by Scottish Enterprise or Highlands and Islands Enterprise for the discharge by the company of any of the functions of Scottish Enterprise or, as the case may be, Highlands and Islands Enterprise.

• Macaulay Land Use Research Institute

• Moredun Research Institute

• Rowett Research Institute

• Royal Society of Edinburgh

• Scottish Agricultural College

• Scottish Crop Research Institute

• Scottish Screen (a company limited by guarantee registered under company number SC173976)

• Scottish UFI Limited (a company limited by guarantee registered under company number SC204868), operating as learndirect scotland.

Signed

ANDREW P KERR — A member of the Scottish Executive — 28th February 2002

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order specifies various bodies or office-holders, and classes of bodies or office-holders, in relation to which the Auditor General for Scotland may initiate examinations under section 23(1) of the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000 into the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of the use of their resources in discharging their functions.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2000 asp 1.

[^f00002]: 1992 c. 37.

[^f00003]: 1990 c. 35.