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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-legislative-reform-horserace-betting-levy-order-2018/schedule-4/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2018/9780111173084",
  "legislation_title": "The Legislative Reform (Horserace Betting Levy) Order 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-legislative-reform-horserace-betting-levy-order-2018",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Horserace Betting Levy Board: accounts and report",
  "text": "(1) The Gambling Commission must prepare proper statements of the Levy Board’s accounts for the relevant period.\n(2) The accounts must be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General.\n(3) The Comptroller and Auditor General must—\n(a) examine, certify and report on the statements of accounts for the relevant period, and\n(b) send a copy of the statements with the report to the Gambling Commission.\n(4) The Gambling Commission must prepare a report of the Levy Board’s activities during the relevant period, before the end of the period of four months beginning with the effective date.\n(5) The report must include the statements of account and the auditor’s report on those statements.\n(6) The Gambling Commission must give a copy of the report to the Secretary of State.\n(7) The Secretary of State must arrange for the report to be laid before Parliament.\n(8) In this paragraph “the relevant period” means the period—\n(a) beginning immediately after the end of the final period for which the Levy Board prepares a statement of account under section 31 of the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act 1963, and\n(b) ending immediately before the effective date.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Although the 1963 Act was repealed by section 356(3)(f) of, and Schedule 17 to, the Gambling Act 2005 (c. 19), section 31 of the 1963 Act is saved by article 3(2) of S.I. 2006/3272 as amended by article 4 of S.I. 2007/2169."
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}