SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 2 Accounts Subject to Audit

Section 2.

1

Section 2 applies to all accounts of—

a

a local authority;

b

a joint authority;

F1bb

the Greater London Authority;

F1bc

a functional body;

F1bd

the London Pensions Fund Authority;

c

a parish meeting of a parish not having a separate parish council;

d

a committee of a local authority, including a joint committee of two or more such authorities;

e

the Council of the Isles of Scilly;

f

any charter trustees constituted under section 246 of the 1972 Act;

g

a body specified in section 98(1) of the M1National Health Service Act 1977 F9, other than a Welsh NHS body;

h

a port health authority;

i

the Broads Authority;

j

a National Park authority;

F2jj

a conservation board established by order under section 86 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000;

k

a police authority established under section 3 of the M2Police Act 1996;

l

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F7m

a fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies;

n

a licensing planning committee;

o

an internal drainage board; and

F4p

a local probation board established under section 4 of the Criminal Justice and Court Services Act 2000

F61A

But section 2 does not apply to accounts of—

a

a Special Health Authority established as at 1st April 2003, in respect of a financial year ending on or after 31st March 2004,

b

the Dental Practice Board, in respect of a financial year ending on or after 31st March 2004,

c

NHSU and NHS Professionals Special Health Authority, in respect of a financial year ending on or after 31st March 2004,

d

NHS Direct and NHS Pensions Agency, in respect of a financial year ending on or after 31st March 2005.

F11e

The Health and Social Care Information Centre, NHS Blood and Transplant (Gwaed a Thrawsblaniadau'r GIG), the NHS Business Services Authority (Awdurdod Gwasanaethau Busnes y GIG) and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement in respect of a financial year ending on or after 31st March 2006.

F101B

Section 2 does not apply to the accounts of a local government body in Wales.

F81C

Section 2 does not apply to the accounts of a body specified in section 98(1)(za) or (bb) to (ddd) of the National Health Service Act 1977 in its capacity as a trustee of a charitable trust.

2

Section 2 also applies to—

a

the accounts of the collection fund of the Common Council and the accounts of the City fund; and

b

the accounts relating to the superannuation fund maintained and administered by the Common Council under the M3Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1995.

3

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4

Subject to section 30, section 2 also applies to the accounts of a Passenger Transport Executive.