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SCHEDULE 4Minor and consequential amendments

Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004

49(1)Section 45 (benefit administration studies for Secretary of State) is amended as follows.

(2)In subsection (7), for the second reference to “the Auditor General for Wales” substitute “the Wales Audit Office”.

(3)In subsection (8), for “the Auditor General for Wales” substitute “the Wales Audit Office, (but may not exceed the full cost incurred by the Auditor General for Wales in conducting, or assisting the Secretary of State to conduct, the study)”.

(4)After subsection (8), insert—

(9)A fee payable under this section must be charged in accordance with a scheme for charging fees prepared under section 24 of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013..