{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004/section-40",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004/section-40.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/23",
  "legislation_title": "Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004",
  "path": "section/40",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "40",
  "heading": "Documents relating to police and crime commissioners and chief constables",
  "text": "(1) If the Auditor General for Wales makes a report under section 22 and the report relates to a police and crime commissioner for, or the chief constable of a police force maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996 for, a police area in Wales, he must send a copy of the report to the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers.\n(2) If the Auditor General for Wales has sent a document (or a copy of a document) relating to one or more police and crime commissioners for police areas in Wales to a police and crime commissioner for a police area in Wales, he may send a copy of the document to the Secretary of State and the Welsh Ministers.\n(3) If the Auditor General for Wales has sent a document (or a copy of a document) relating to one or more chief constables of police forces maintained under section 2 of the Police Act 1996 for a police area in Wales, the Auditor General may send a copy of the document to the persons to whom a copy of a document may be sent under subsection (2).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 40(1) substituted (1.4.2014) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 3), s. 35(2), Sch. 4 para. 45(3) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2, 3); S.I. 2013/1466, art. 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 40(1) substituted (22.11.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 338(3); S.I. 2012/2892, art. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 40 substituted (1.4.2014) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 3), s. 35(2), Sch. 4 para. 45(2) (with Sch. 3 paras. 2, 3); S.I. 2013/1466, art. 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 40(2) substituted (22.11.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 338(4)(a); S.I. 2012/2892, art. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 40(2) substituted (22.11.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 338(4)(b); S.I. 2012/2892, art. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 40(3) inserted (22.11.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 338(5); S.I. 2012/2892, art. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 40 title substituted (22.11.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 338(2); S.I. 2012/2892, art. 2(i)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/23/section/40",
    "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."
}