Part 42Statutory Auditors
Chapter 3Auditors General
Supervision of Auditors General
1230Duties of Auditors General in relation to supervision arrangements
1
Each Auditor General must—
a
comply with any standards of the kind mentioned in subsection (3)(a) or (b) of section 1229 determined under the supervision arrangements,
b
take such steps as may be reasonably required of that Auditor General to enable his performance of statutory audits to be monitored by means of inspections carried out under the supervision arrangements, and
c
comply with any decision of the kind mentioned in subsection (3)(f) of that section made under the supervision arrangements.
2
Each Auditor General must pay to the body or bodies with which the Independent Supervisor enters into the supervision arrangements such proportion of the costs incurred by the body or bodies for the purposes of the arrangements as the Independent Supervisor may notify to him in writing.
3
Expenditure under subsection (2) is—
a
in the case of expenditure of the Comptroller and Auditor General, to be regarded as expenditure of the National Audit Office for the purposes of section 4(1) of the National Audit Act 1983 (c. 44);
b
in the case of expenditure of the Comptroller and Auditor General for Northern Ireland, to be regarded as expenditure of the Northern Ireland Audit Office for the purposes of Article 6(1) of the Audit (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (S.I. 1987/460 (N.I. 5)).
4
In this section “the supervision arrangements” means the arrangements entered into under section 1229.