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Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000

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46.This section makes provision for the establishment of a new public sector audit service which is to be known as Audit Scotland. Audit Scotland is to be a body corporate whose functions are to provide the administrative support and services, etc that the Auditor General for Scotland and the Accounts Commission for Scotland require for the carrying out of their own (statutory) functions. The more detailed arrangements necessitated by the establishment of this new body are at schedule 2.

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Text created by the Scottish Government to explain what the Act sets out to achieve and to make the Act accessible to readers who are not legally qualified. Explanatory Notes were introduced in 1999 and accompany all Acts of the Scottish Parliament except those which result from Budget Bills.

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