18Accounts and accounting officer
(1)Schedule 1 of the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 (the Electoral Commission) is amended as follows.
(2)After paragraph 18(2) insert—
“(3)As soon as is reasonably practicable after the Comptroller and Auditor General has certified the Commission’s accounts and laid a copy of the accounts as so certified before each House of Parliament under sub-paragraph (2), the Commission must—
(a)submit a copy of the accounts as so certified to the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, and
(b)lay a copy of the accounts as so certified before the Scottish Parliament.”.
(3)In paragraph 19(4), after “Speaker’s Committee” insert “, the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body”.