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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2001 No. 734

MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority (Accounts and Audit) Regulations 2001

  Made 6th March 2001 
  Laid before Parliament 7th March 2001 
  Coming into force 1st April 2001 

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 59D(4)(b) of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997[1], makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and interpretation
     1.  - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority (Accounts and Audit) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 1st April 2001.

    (2) In these Regulations:

Accounts and audit
     2. Part II of the 1998 Act (accounts and audit of public bodies) shall apply to the Authority as if - 

     3. In relation to the Authority, references in Part II of the 1998 Act to sections of that Act shall be read as references to those sections as applied to the Authority by these Regulations.



Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor


Jane Kennedy
Parliamentary Secretary Lord Chancellor's Department

Dated 6th March 2001



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations apply Part II of the Audit Commission Act 1998 (accounts and audit of public bodies) to the Greater London Magistrates' Courts Authority with modifications.

The following provisions are applied with modification: section 2 (required audit of accounts); section 10 (transmission and consideration of section 8 reports); section 11 (consideration of reports or recommendations); section 12 (publicity for meeting under section 11); section 17 (declaration that item of account is unlawful); section 18 (recovery of amount not accounted for etc); and section 25 (extraordinary audit).

The remaining provisions of Part II of the Act are applied without modification.


Notes:

[1] 1997 c. 25. Section 59D(4) was inserted into the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 by section 83(2) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22).back

[2] 1998 c. 18.back

[3] Section 30A(1) was inserted into the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 by section 83(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22).back

[4] Sections 10, 11 and 12 have been amended by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), Schedule 8, paragraphs 2, 3 and 5.back

[5] Section 30C was inserted into the Justices of the Peace Act 1997 by section 83(1) of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22).back

[6] Sections 17 and 18 have been amended by the Greater London Authority Act 1999 (c. 29), Schedule 8, paragraphs 6 and 7. Those paragraphs are repealed and part of section 17 and the whole of section 18 are omitted and repealed by the Local Government Act 2000 (c. 22), section 90 and Schedule 6. Section 90 and the part of Schedule 6 that effects those repeals come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order appoint.back



ISBN 0 11 028917 X


 © Crown copyright 2001

Prepared 16 March 2001


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