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45(1)Section 144 (power of Secretary of State by order to make provision about accounts etc. of bodies specified in Schedule 17) is amended as follows.U.K.
(2)In subsection (1), for “Secretary of State” substitute “ Welsh Ministers ”.
(3)In subsection (3)—
(a)for paragraph (a) substitute—
“(a)the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh F1... Government to designate accounting officers and to specify their responsibilities,”, and
(b)in paragraph (d), for “ [F2Assembly] (or, before the first ordinary election, by the Secretary of State)” substitute “ Welsh Ministers ”.
(4)For subsection (4) substitute—
“(4)The Welsh Ministers may by order make provision for the Permanent Secretary to the Welsh F1... Government to designate accounting officers of any body specified in Part 3 of Schedule 17 and to specify their responsibilities.
(4A)An order under subsection (1) or (4) may not remove or restrict any function of the Comptroller and Auditor General.”
(5)After subsection (5) insert—
“(5A)A statutory instrument containing an order under subsection (1) or (4), other than an order to which subsection (5B) applies, is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the [F2Assembly] .
(5B)No order to which this subsection applies may be made unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing it has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the [F2Assembly] .
(5C)Subsection (5B) applies to an order under subsection (1) or (4) which contains provisions in the form of amendments or repeals of enactments contained in an Act of Parliament, [F2Assembly] Measure or Act of the [F2Assembly] .”
(6)Omit subsection (6).
(7)In subsection (8)—
(a)for “Secretary of State” substitute “ Welsh Ministers ”, and
(b)in paragraph (a), after “other than” insert “ the National [F2Assembly] for Wales Commission, ”.
(8)After that subsection insert—
“(8ZA)No order under subsection (8) may be made unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing it has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, the [F2Assembly] .”
(9)Omit subsection (8A).
(10)In subsection (9), before the word “and” at the end of paragraph (b) insert—
“(ba)“Permanent Secretary to the Welsh F1... Government” means the person appointed in accordance with section 52 of the Government of Wales Act 2006 to be the head of the staff of the Welsh F1... Government (whether or not that person is known by the title of Permanent Secretary to the Welsh F1... Government),”.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Act omitted (17.2.2015) by virtue of Wales Act 2014 (c. 29), s. 4(2)(a) (with s. 4(3))
F2Words in Act substituted (6.5.2020) by Senedd and Elections (Wales) Act 2020 (anaw 1), s. 42(2), Sch. 1 para. 2(19) (with Sch. 1 para. 2(11)-(14))
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 10 paras. 42-55 in force immediately after the end of "the initial period" by s. 161(4)(d)
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