The Audit and Assessment Reports (Wales) Order 2010

Made: 29 November 2010

Laid before the National Assembly for Wales: 30 November 2010

Coming into force: 30 November 2010

The Welsh Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 19(3)(b) of the Local Government (Wales) Measure 2009[^f00001], make the following Order:

Title, commencement, interpretation and application

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• (1) The title of this Order is The Audit and Assessment Reports (Wales) Order 2010 and it comes into force on 30 November 2010.

• (2) In this Order—

• “the Measure” means the Local Government (Wales) Measure 2009; and

• “report” means an audit and assessment report within the meaning of section 19(1) of the Measure.

• (3) This Order applies in relation to Wales.

Date for copies of a report to be sent to a Welsh improvement authority and the Welsh Ministers

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In respect of the financial year beginning 1 April 2010 copies of any report issued in accordance with section 19(2) of the Measure must be sent by 31 January 2011.

Signed

Carl Sargeant — Minister for Social Justice and Local Government, one of the Welsh Ministers — 29 November 2010

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 17 of the Local Government (Wales) Measure 2009 (“the Measure”) imposes a duty on the Auditor General for Wales to carry out an audit for the purposes of determining whether a Welsh improvement authority has discharged its duties under section 15 of the Measure.

Section 18 of the Measure places a duty on the Auditor General for Wales to carry out an assessment in respect of each financial year determining whether a Welsh improvement authority is likely to comply with the requirements of Part 1 of the Measure.

Section 19 of the Measure requires the Auditor General for Wales to issue an audit and assessment report in respect of a Welsh improvement authority.

This Order amends section 19(3)(a) of the Measure in respect of the financial year beginning 1 April 2010 by extending the date by which the Auditor General for Wales must send copies of any report to the Welsh Ministers and the Welsh improvement authority concerned.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2009 nawm 2.