{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004/section-46",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004/section-46.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/23",
  "legislation_title": "Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004",
  "path": "section/46",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "46",
  "heading": "Performance standards: relevant bodies",
  "text": "(1) Each of these local government bodies in Wales is a relevant body for the purposes of sections 47 to 49—\n(a) a local authority in Wales;\n(b) a committee of a local authority in Wales (including a joint committee of two or more local authorities in Wales);\n(ba) a corporate joint committee;\n(c) a National Park authority for a National Park in Wales;\n(d) a police and crime commissioner for a police area in Wales;\n(e) a fire and rescue authority in Wales constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 (c. 21) or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies.\n(2) the Welsh Ministers may by order provide for sections 47 to 49 to have effect as if any other local government body in Wales were a relevant body for the purposes of those sections.\n(3) In this section “local authority in Wales” does not include a community council.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 46(1)(ba) inserted (15.7.2022) by The Corporate Joint Committees (General) (No. 2) (Wales) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/797), regs. 1(2), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 46(1)(d) substituted (22.11.2012) by Police Reform and Social Responsibility Act 2011 (c. 13), s. 157(1), Sch. 16 para. 339; S.I. 2012/2892, art. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 46(2) substituted (1.4.2014) by virtue of Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 3), s. 35(2), Sch. 4 para. 50 (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/46",
    "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."
}