Explanatory note

These Regulations apply Part II of the Audit Commission Act 1998 (accounts and audit of public bodies) to the Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority with modifications.

The following provisions are applied with modification: section 2 (required audit of accounts); section 10 (transmission and consideration of section 8 reports); section 11 (consideration of reports or recommendations); section 12 (publicity for meeting under section 11); section 17 (declaration that item of account is unlawful); section 18 (recovery of amount not accounted for etc); and section 25 (extraordinary audit).

The remaining provisions of Part II of the Act are applied without modification.