Paragraph 3 Accounts and Audit Regulations 1983

(1)

The Accounts and Audit Regulations 1983 (“the 1983 Regulations") M1 shall have effect subject to the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2)

Regulation 7 (preparation of statement of accounts) shall have effect as if a National Park authority were a body mentioned within paragraph (2)(a) of that regulation and references in the 1983 Regulations to a body to which paragraph (2) of regulation 7 applies shall be construed accordingly.

(3)

Regulation 18 (joint committees etc) shall have effect as if a National Park authority were a combined authority to which the 1983 Regulations apply and as if the reference to each constituent authority were, in relation to a National Park authority, construed as a reference to the Secretary of State for Wales, the Countryside Council for Wales and to the council for every principal area the whole or any part of which is in the National Park for which that National Park authority is established.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: S.I. 1983/1761: relevant amendments were made by S.I. 1986/1271; S.I. 1990/435 and S.I. 1994/3018. A National Park authority is a body whose accounts are required to be audited in accordance with Part III of the Local Government Finance Act 1982 (c.32) by paragraph 19(1) of Schedule 7 to the 1995 Act.