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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-and-accountability-act-2014/section-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2014/2",
  "legislation_title": "Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-and-accountability-act-2014",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Abolition of existing audit regime",
  "text": "(1) The Audit Commission ceases to exist.\n(2) The Audit Commission Act 1998 is repealed.\n(3) Schedule 1 (abolition of Audit Commission: supplementary provision) has effect.\n(4) In that Schedule—\n(a) Part 1 makes some arrangements in connection with the abolition of the Audit Commission, and\n(b) Part 2 contains consequential repeals and revocations of Acts and instruments that amend the Audit Commission Act 1998.\n(5) In this section and that Schedule “the Audit Commission” means the Audit Commission for Local Authorities and the National Health Service in England.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 1 in force at 1.4.2015 by S.I. 2015/841, art. 3(a) (with arts. 5-8, Sch.) (as amended (27.6.2016) by S.I. 2016/675, art. 2; (17.12.2018) by S.I. 2018/1369, art. 3; (16.12.2020) by S.I. 2020/1565, art. 2; (14.12.2023) by S.I. 2023/1396, art. 2)"
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:55.780103+00:00"
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  "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."
}