SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 15Accounts and audit

Auditing of certain Special Health Authority accounts by Comptroller and Auditor General

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(1)

This paragraph applies where F1an NHS body that is a Special Health Authority or NHS Direct sends a copy of its annual accounts to the Comptroller and Auditor General under paragraph 5(3).

(2)

The Comptroller and Auditor General must examine, certify and report on the accounts.

(3)

The F2body must lay before both Houses of Parliament—

(a)

a copy of the accounts, and

(b)

the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on them.