Regulation 4 Subordinate legislation amendedI1

The Local Authorities (Contracts) Regulations 1997^f1 are amended as follows.

In regulation 2, omit the definition of “the auditor”, and substitute, in the appropriate place, the following —

• ““the auditor” means, in relation to a local authority which is a local government body in Wales, as defined in section 12 of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004, the auditor appointed under section 13 of that Act to audit the accounts of the authority in accordance with Chapter 1 of Part 2 of that Act; and in relation to any other local authority, the auditor appointed under section 3 of the Audit Commission Act 1998 to audit the accounts of the authority in accordance with that Act;”.