{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-36/paragraph-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026/schedule-36/paragraph-29.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2026/23",
  "legislation_title": "English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/english-devolution-and-community-empowerment-act-2026",
  "path": "schedule/36/paragraph/29",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Schedule 7 (reports and recommendations) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 1, for sub-paragraphs (5) and (6) substitute—\n“(5) A local auditor may recover under section 32A the reasonable costs of—\n(a) determining whether to make a public interest report (regardless of whether it is in fact made), and\n(b) making a public interest report.”\n(3) In paragraph 2—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (3), after paragraph (a) insert—\n“(aa) to the Local Audit Office,”;\n(b) for sub-paragraphs (4) and (5) substitute—\n“(4) A local auditor may recover under section 32A the reasonable costs of—\n(a) determining whether to make a recommendation (regardless of whether it is in fact made), and\n(b) making a recommendation.”\n(4) In paragraph 3(2), after paragraph (a) insert—\n“(aa) to the Local Audit Office,”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 36 para. 29 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 108(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/23/schedule/36/paragraph/29",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:43:57.197615+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}