Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013 Explanatory Notes

Paragraph 13 - Indemnification

105.Paragraph 13(1) makes provision to apply section 29 to liabilities arising before, or arising in relation to an act or omission occurring before, section 29 comes into force. Section 29 provides that any amount payable by an indemnified person in consequence of a liability for a breach of duty is to be charged on, and paid out of, the WCF.

106.Paragraph 13(2) and (3) makes provision that where a sum would have been payable by a former Auditor General under paragraph 9(1) of Schedule 8 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 that paragraph is to continue to have effect as if the repeal (Schedule 4, paragraph 79(2)) had not come into force.

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