The Auditor General for Wales may carry out examinations into the economy, efficiency and effectiveness with which a body or office specified in Schedule 17 has used its resources in discharging its functions.

Subsection (1) shall not be construed as entitling the Auditor General for Wales to question the merits of the policy objectives of any body or office in respect of which an examination is carried out.

In determining how to exercise his functions under this section, the Auditor General for Wales shall take into account the views of the Audit Committee F1. . . as to the examinations which he should carry out under this section.

The Auditor General for Wales may lay before the Assembly a report of the results of any examination carried out by him under this section.

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This section is without prejudice to the power conferred on the Auditor General for Wales by F5paragraph 18(3)(b) of Schedule 8 to the Government of Wales Act 2006 (agreement between a person and the Welsh Ministers etc. to permit the Auditor General to carry out an examination into the discharge of functions by that person) .