(1)Section 3 of the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act 1921 (examination of accounts specified by Treasury minute) shall be amended as follows.
(2)For subsection (1) there shall be substituted—
“(1)The Comptroller and Auditor General shall examine the accounts of any person or body specified by an order made by the Treasury by statutory instrument; and no such order shall be made unless a draft of it has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.”
(3)In subsection (2) for the words “the accountant” there shall be substituted the words “the person or body in question.”
(4)Subsections (3) and (4) shall cease to have effect.