{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/schedule-8/paragraph-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012/schedule-8/paragraph-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2012/7",
  "legislation_title": "Health and Social Care Act 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-social-care-act-2012",
  "path": "schedule/8/paragraph/19",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Monitor must prepare annual accounts in respect of each financial year.\n(2) Monitor must send copies of the annual accounts to the Secretary of State and the Comptroller and Auditor General within such period after the end of the financial year to which the accounts relate as the Secretary of State may direct.\n(3) The Comptroller and Auditor General must—\n(a) examine, certify and report on the annual accounts, and\n(b) lay copies of them and the report before Parliament.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 19 partly in force; Sch. 8 para. 19 in force for specified purposes at Royal Assent, see s. 306(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 19 in force at 1.11.2012 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2012/2657, art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/7/schedule/8/paragraph/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:58.603352+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."
}