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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2013/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2013/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "anaw/2013/3",
  "legislation_title": "Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-audit-wales-act-2013",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Status etc",
  "text": "(1) The person for the time being holding the office of Auditor General continues, by the name of that office, to be a corporation sole.\n(2) The Auditor General is not to be regarded as holding office under Her Majesty or as exercising any functions on behalf of the Crown.\n(3) But the Auditor General is to be taken to be a Crown servant for the purposes of the Official Secrets Act 1989.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 6 in force at 1.4.2014 by S.I. 2013/1466, art. 3(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/anaw/2013/3/section/6",
    "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."
}