The Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 (Commencement No. 7, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2015

Data matching

5.—(1) The following provisions have effect despite the repeal of Part 2A of the 1998 Act(1) (data matching).

(2) Any data matching exercise being conducted under that Part immediately before 1st April 2015 may be continued under Part 6 (data matching) of the 2014 Act.

(3) Any scale of fees prescribed under section 32F of the 1998 Act (fees for data matching) continues in force as if it were a scale of fees prescribed under Part 6 of the 2014 Act until the earlier of—

(a) 31st March 2017;

(b) the date on which it is replaced by a scale of fees under paragraph 6 of Schedule 9 to the 2014 Act.

(4) A scale of fees prescribed under section 32F of the 1998 Act is to be read subject to the modifications necessary for it to have effect under paragraph 6 of Schedule 9 to the 2014 Act.

(5) Any fee payable to the Audit Commission under section 32F of the 1998 Act may be collected by and paid to the relevant minister.

(6) Any code of practice prepared under section 32G of the 1998 Act (code of data matching practice) continues in force as if it were a code of practice prepared under Part 6 of the 2014 Act until it is replaced by a code of data matching practice prepared under paragraph 7 of Schedule 9 to that Act.

(7) A provision of a code of practice under section 32G of the 1998 Act is to be read subject to the modifications necessary for it to have effect under paragraph 7 of Schedule 9 to the 2014 Act.

(8) Part 6 of the 2014 Act applies to data disclosed to the Audit Commission under Part 2A of the 1998 Act as if it were data provided to a relevant minister under that Part and Schedule.

(9) Nothing in the 2014 Act affects Part 2A of the 1998 Act in its operation in relation to offences committed before 1st April 2015.

(1)

1998 c.18; Part 2A of that Act is inserted by section 73 of, and Part 1 of Schedule 7 to, the Serious Crime Act 2007 (c.27).