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Legal Aid, Advice and Assistance (Northern Ireland) Order 1981
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Changes and effects yet to be applied to the whole Order associated Parts and Chapters:
- Order power to amend conferred by 2011 c. 24 (N.I.) Sch. 5 para. 5(a)
- Act rev.in pt. by 1996 c. 25 s.79 Sch.4 paras.19(2) 36
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- art. 28(7)(c) inserted by 2011 c. 24 (N.I.) s. 83(2)(a)
- art. 29(2A) inserted by 2015 c. 9 (N.I.) Sch. 2 para. 3
- art. 29(2A) words substituted in earlier affecting provision 2015 c. 9 (N.I.), Sch. 2 para. 3 by 2022 c. 4 (N.I.) s. 4(9)(c)
[F1Accounts and auditN.I.
20.—(1) The Law Society shall keep such accounts with respect to the legal aid fund as the[F2 Lord Chancellor] may with the approval of the Treasury direct, and shall prepare in respect of each financial year a statement of accounts in such form as may be so directed.
(2) The accounts shall be audited by persons to be appointed in respect of each financial year by the[F2 Lord Chancellor] and in accordance with a scheme of audit approved by the[F2 Lord Chancellor], and the auditors shall be furnished by the Law Society with copies of the said statement and shall report to the[F2 Lord Chancellor] on the accounts and the said statement.
[F3(3) A person shall not be appointed as an auditor in pursuance of paragraph (2) unless he is eligible for appointment as a [F4statutory auditor under Part 42 of the Companies Act 2006].]
(4) As soon as the accounts have been audited, the auditors shall send to the[F2 Lord Chancellor] copies of the statement of accounts and of their report, and the[F2 Lord Chancellor] shall send a copy of the statement and of the report to the Comptroller and Auditor-General.
(5) The Comptroller and Auditor-General—
(a)shall examine every statement and report sent to him under paragraph (4);
(b)may inspect the accounts kept with respect to the legal aid fund and any records relating thereto; and
(c)shall certify every such statement and lay a copy of it together with his report thereon before Parliament.]
F1 Pt. 2 (to the extent that it remains in operation) repealed (1.4.2015) by Access to Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/435), arts. 1(2), 49(5), Sch. 5 (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 48, Sch. 3); S.R. 2015/194, art. 2, Sch. (with transitional provisions and savings in art. 3)
F2SI 1982/159
F3SR 1993/67
F4Words in art. 20(3) substituted (6.4.2008) by Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), arts. 2(2), 3(1)(a), Sch. 1 para. 2(c) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)
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