{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994/section-85",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/29",
  "legislation_title": "Police and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-and-magistrates-courts-act-1994",
  "path": "section/85",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Regulations as to accounts and audit.",
  "text": "After section 62 of the 1979 Act there shall be inserted—\n“ Regulations as to accounts and audit.\n62A (1) The Lord Chancellor may by regulations made by statutory instrument require magistrates’ courts committees—\n(a) to keep prescribed accounts and prescribed records in relation to those accounts, and\n(b) to cause any such accounts to be audited in accordance with the regulations.\n(2) In subsection (1) above “prescribed” means prescribed by the regulations.”",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/29/section/85",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:47.960485+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."
}