{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004/schedule-1/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/23",
  "legislation_title": "Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After section 2 insert—\n“Power to extend or disapply: best value authorities in Wales\n2A (1) The National Assembly for Wales may by order provide that any of the bodies mentioned in subsection (2) is a best value authority in Wales for the purposes of this Part.\n(2) The bodies are—\n(a) a levying body within the meaning of section 74(1) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988;\n(b) a body to which section 75 of that Act applies (special levies).\n(3) An order under subsection (1) providing for a body to be a best value authority in Wales may provide for section 7 to have effect in relation to that body with specified modifications.\n(4) The National Assembly for Wales may by order provide that a best value authority in Wales specified, or of a description specified, in the order is not to be subject, in relation to such functions as may be specified, to a duty—\n(a) which is specified in the order, and\n(b) to which the authority would otherwise be subject under this Part.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/23/schedule/1/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:02.610556+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."
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