PART 6

PERFORMANCE AND GOVERNANCE OF PRINCIPAL COUNCILS
CHAPTER 1

PERFORMANCE, PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS AND INTERVENTION

Special inspections by Auditor General for Wales

Auditor General's fees
101
1
The Wales Audit Office must prescribe a scale of fees in respect of special inspections.
2
A principal council in respect of which a special inspection is carried out must, subject to subsection (3), pay to the Wales Audit Office, in accordance with a scheme for charging fees prepared under section 24 of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013 (anaw 3), the fee payable under the scale prescribed under subsection (1).
3
If it appears to the Wales Audit Office that the work involved in a particular special inspection was substantially more or less than that envisaged by the scale prescribed under subsection (1), the Wales Audit Office may charge a fee which is larger or smaller than that mentioned in subsection (2).
4
But a fee charged under this section may not exceed the full cost of carrying out the activity to which it relates.
5
Before prescribing a scale of fees under this section the Wales Audit Office must consult—
a
the Welsh Ministers, and
b
such persons representing principal councils as the Wales Audit Office considers appropriate.
S. 101 in force at 1.4.2021 by S.I. 2021/297, art. 2(b)