{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-79",
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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/4/paragraph/79",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Schedule 8 (Auditor General for Wales) is amended as follows.\n(2) Omit paragraphs 1 to 16.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 17 (access to documents), in paragraph (c), for “Act” substitute “ enactment ”.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (7) of paragraph 17—\n(a) for “Act” substitute “ enactment ”, and\n(b) at the end of the sub-paragraph, before the full stop, insert “ , apart from accounts that fall to be examined under Part 2 of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 ”.\n(5) In paragraph 18 (other powers)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (1), after “the Welsh Ministers may”, insert “ , having first consulted the Wales Audit Office, ”, and\n(b) after sub-paragraph (3) insert—\n“(3A) But before entering into an agreement under sub-paragraph (3), the Welsh Ministers or a Minister of the Crown (as the case may be) must consult the Wales Audit Office.”.\n(6) Omit paragraph 21.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 79(1)(3)-(6) in force at 1.4.2014 by S.I. 2013/1466, art. 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 79(2) in force at 4.7.2013 for specified purposes by S.I. 2013/1466, art. 2(x)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 79(2) in force at 1.4.2014 in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2013/1466, art. 3(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2013/3/schedule/4/paragraph/79",
    "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."
}