Paragraph 10

United Kingdom

C1(1)

The accounts prepared by the Welsh Administration Ombudsman for any financial year shall be submitted by him to the Auditor General for Wales F1no later than 30th November of the following financial year.

(2)

The Auditor General for Wales shall—

(a)

examine and certify any accounts submitted to him under this paragraph, and

(b)

no later than four months after the accounts are submitted to him, lay before the Assembly a copy of them as certified by him together with his report on them.

(3)

In examining any accounts submitted to him under this paragraph, the Auditor General for Wales shall, in particular, satisfy himself that the expenditure to which the accounts relate has been incurred lawfully and in accordance with the authority which governs it.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Sch. 9 para. 10(1) substituted (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 20, s. 29, Sch. 1 para. 23(d); S.I. 2000/3349, art. 3(1)

Modifications

C1: Sch. 9 para. 10(1): power to amend conferred (1.4.2001) by 2000 c. 20, s. 29, Sch. 1 para. 27; S.I. 2000/3349, art. 3(1)

Notes on Schedule 9

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 9 repealed (12.10.2005 in so far as relates, for certain purposes, to para. 8 and 1.4.2006 otherwise) by Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c. 10), ss. 39, 40, Sch. 6 para. 69, Sch. 7 (with s. 38); S.I. 2005/2800, arts. 3, 5(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 (with Sch. 2)