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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2013/schedule-1/paragraph-31",
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  "legislation": "anaw/2013/3",
  "legislation_title": "Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2013",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/31",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The validity of anything done by the WAO (including anything done by its non-executive members, the employee members, any committee or sub-committee and by any employee of the WAO) is not affected by—\n(a) a vacancy, or\n(b) a defective appointment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 31 in force at 4.7.2013 by S.I. 2013/1466, art. 2(u)(xvii)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2013/3/schedule/1/paragraph/31",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:18:31.755762+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."
}