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The Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2015

S.I. 2015/179 · Made 9 February 2015

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Local Government, England And Wales

Made 9th February 2015

The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 49(1) and (5) of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014f1.

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Footnotes

f1

2014 c.2.

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Appointed day
  3. 3Transitory provision
  4. Signature
  5. Explanatory note

1Citation

This Order may be cited as the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2015.

2Appointed day

The day after the day on which this Order is made is the day appointed for the coming into force of paragraphs 49, 50(1) and (3), 51 and 52 of Schedule 12 to the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 for the purpose of the Secretary of State making regulations under section 21 of the Local Government Act 2003f1, and section 45 so far as it relates to those paragraphs and that purpose.

3Transitory provision

In the period until there is a recognised supervisory body within the meaning in the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014f1, the reference to the recognised supervisory bodies in section 32(3)(c) of that Act is to be treated as a reference to the bodies that are recognised supervisory bodies for the purposes of section 1217(4) of, and Schedule 10 to, the Companies Act 2006f2 as they have effect in relation to statutory audit.

Signature

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government

Kris Hopkins

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Communities and Local Government

9th February 2015

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on the day after the day the Order is made amendments in the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 (“the 2014 Act”) to sections 21, 22 and 24 of the Local Government Act 2003, for the purposes of the Secretary of State making regulations under section 21.

The Order also makes a transitory provision in relation to the reference in section 32(3)(c) of the 2014 Act to recognised supervisory bodies as defined in the Act in respect of the period between the making of the Order and the recognition of a supervisory body under section 1217(4) of, and Schedule 10 to, the Companies Act 2006 as it has effect by virtue of Schedule 5 to the 2014 Act.