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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-and-accountability-act-2014-commencement-no-7-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2015/schedule/paragraph-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/841",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 (Commencement No. 7, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-and-accountability-act-2014-commencement-no-7-transitional-provisions-and-savings-order-2015",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Public interest reports for financial years beginning before 1st April 2015",
  "text": "(1) The repeal of section 8 of the 1998 Act (immediate and other reports in public interest) does not affect a report made under that section in relation to a financial year beginning before 1st April 2015.\n(2) Until 31st December 2018 and in relation to the audit of accounts for a financial year beginning before 1st April 2015 a reference to the Commission in a provision listed in sub-paragraph (3) is to be read as a reference to the person or body by whom functions of the Audit Commission may be exercised by virtue of article 7 of this Order.\n(3) The provisions referred to in sub-paragraph (2) are—\n(a) section 10(2) of the 1998 Act;\n(b) section 13A(4)(b) of the 1998 Act.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. para. 4(2) substituted (27.6.2016) by The Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 (Commencement No. 8 and Commencement No. 7, Transitional Provisions and Savings (Amendment)) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/675), art. 2(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 4 in force at made date"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1998 c.18; section 13A of that Act is inserted by section 108 of the Local Government Act 2003 (c.26)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/841/schedule/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:40:53.368535+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."
}