{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004/section-64G",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004/section-64G.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/23",
  "legislation_title": "Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2004",
  "path": "section/64G",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "64G",
  "heading": "Code of data matching practice",
  "text": "(1) The Auditor General for Wales must prepare, and keep under review, a code of practice with respect to data matching exercises.\n(2) Regard must be had to the code in conducting and participating in any such exercise.\n(3) Before preparing or altering the code, the Auditor General must consult the bodies mentioned in section 64B(2), the Information Commission and such other bodies or persons as the Auditor General thinks fit.\n(4) The Auditor General must—\n(a) lay a copy of the code, and of any alterations made to the code, before the National Assembly for Wales, and\n(b) from time to time publish the code as for the time being in force.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 3A inserted (1.3.2008 for s. 64G(1)(3)(4) and 6.4.2008 otherwise) by Serious Crime Act 2007 (c. 27), ss. 73, 94, Sch. 7 para. 4; S.I. 2008/219, art. 3(i); S.I. 2008/755, art. 16"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 64G(3) substituted (30.9.2026) by The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/386), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 34; S.I. 2026/1015, reg. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 64G(4)(a) substituted (1.4.2014) by Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 3), s. 35(2), Sch. 4 para. 68 (with Sch. 3 para. 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/64G",
    "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."
}