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PART 2E+W [F1Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru]

Textual Amendments

Financial matters [F2and governance] E+W

Textual Amendments

17[F3Governance and audit committee]E+W

(1)The Commission must establish a committee [F4(a “governance and audit committee”)] to—

(a)review and scrutinise the Commission's financial affairs,

(b)review and assess the Commission's risk management, internal control and corporate governance arrangements,

[F5(ba)review, assess and manage the Commission’s internal and external audit arrangements,

(bb)review and assess the Commission’s handling of complaints,

(bc)review—

(i)statements of accounts and reports prepared by the Commission under sections 19(1) and 20,

(ii)reports prepared by the Auditor General for Wales under section 19(4),]

(c)review and assess the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which resources have been used in discharging the Commission's functions, and

(d)make reports and recommendations to the Commission in relation to reviews conducted under paragraphs (a), (b) [F6, (ba), (bb), (bc)] or (c).

(2)The [F7governance and audit] committee must send copies of its reports and recommendations to the Welsh Ministers.

[F8(2A)The Commission may confer on the governance and audit committee the functions the Commission considers suitable to be exercised by the committee.]

(3)It is for the [F9governance and audit] committee to determine how to exercise its functions under this section.

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