{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004/section-29",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004/section-29.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/23",
  "legislation_title": "Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004",
  "path": "section/29",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "29",
  "heading": "Inspection of statements of accounts and Auditor General for Wales' reports",
  "text": "(1) A local government elector for the area of a local government body in Wales may—\n(a) at all reasonable times and without payment inspect and make a copy of any statement of accounts prepared by the body under regulations made under section 39;\n(b) at all reasonable times and without payment inspect and make a copy of any report (other than a report under section 22(3)) made to the body by the Auditor General for Wales;\n(c) require a copy of a statement or report falling within paragraph (a) or (b) to be delivered to him on payment of a reasonable sum for each copy.\n(2) A person who has custody of a document falling within paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1) commits an offence if—\n(a) he obstructs a person in the exercise of a right under this section to inspect or make a copy of the document, or\n(b) he refuses to supply a copy of the document to a person entitled to the copy under subsection (1)(c).\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(4) In this section references to a copy of a document include a copy of any part of it.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 29(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2014) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 3), s. 35(2), Sch. 4 para. 34(2) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2, 3); S.I. 2013/1466, art. 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 29 heading substituted (1.4.2014) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 3), s. 35(2), Sch. 4 para. 34(3) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2, 3); S.I. 2013/1466, art. 3(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/23/section/29",
    "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."
}