Section 63: Audit of accounts of officers of Welsh NHS bodies
132.The section applies the Auditor General’s financial audit responsibilities to the accounts of an officer of a Welsh NHS body who holds money or property on its behalf (for instance a named charitable trustee).Section 64: Provision of information by CHAI
133.This section obliges CHAI to provide the Auditor General, if he so requests, with information to enable him to make comparisons between Welsh NHS bodies on the one hand, and English NHS bodies and cross-border Special Health Authorities, on the other. The duty on CHAI applies where the Auditor General is exercising his functions under section 145 or 145A of the GOWA in relation to one or more Welsh NHS bodies – that is, his functions of undertaking or promoting studies into the economy, efficiency and effectiveness of the use of resources by such bodies, or into how they provide their services. The equivalent duty is imposed on the Auditor General by Schedule 2, amending the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003. The intention of these two provisions is to facilitate the raising of standards in both England and Wales by enabling the regulatory bodies to compare practice in the two countries. The duties the two provisions impose are complementary to other duties and powers of co-operation applicable to the Auditor General and CHAI elsewhere in the Act, particularly in section 62 and other provisions of Schedule 2.
