SCHEDULES
F1SCHEDULE 1
Accounts and audit
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The Advisory Committee shall keep accounts and shall prepare a statement of accounts (the “statement") in respect of each financial year.
2
The accounts shall be kept, and the statement shall be prepared, in such form as the Lord Chancellor may, with the approval of the Treasury, direct.
3
The accounts shall be audited by persons to be appointed in respect of each financial year by the Lord Chancellor in accordance with a scheme of audit approved by him.
4
The auditors shall be furnished by the Advisory Committee with copies of the statement and shall prepare a report to the Lord Chancellor on the accounts and statement.
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No person shall be appointed as auditor under this paragraph unless he is eligible for appointment as a company auditor under section 25 of the Companies Act 1989 or is a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy.
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On completion of the audit of the accounts, the auditors shall send to the Lord Chancellor a copy of the statement and of their report.
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The Lord Chancellor shall send a copy of the statement and of the report to the Comptroller and Auditor General.
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The Lord Chancellor and the Comptroller and Auditor General may inspect the Advisory Committee’s accounts and any records relating to them.
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The Lord Chancellor shall lay before each House of Parliament a copy of every statement and report sent to him under this paragraph.
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In this paragraph “financial year” means—
a
the period beginning with the day on which the Advisory Committee is established and ending with the following 31st March; and
b
each subsequent period of twelve months ending with 31st March.
Sch. 1 repealed (1.1.2000) by 1999 c. 22, s. 106, Sch. 15 Pt. II (with Sch. 14 paras. 7(2), 36(9)); S.I. 1999/3344, art. 2(d), Sch. 1 para. 4