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Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014

Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014

2014 CHAPTER 2

Commentary

Part 3 – Appointment Etc of Local Auditors

Schedule 3, Paragraph 1: Provisions applying to certain local authorities

26.This paragraph sets out arrangements for the appointment of auditors by certain types of local authorities. Subsection (1) stipulates that in local authorities operating executive arrangements (i.e. Leader and Cabinet or Mayor and Cabinet) the full council, not the executive, must appoint the auditor. Subsection (2) provides that for local authorities, as defined by section 101 of the Local Government Act 1972, the provisions in that section do not apply and they must not delegate the function of appointing an auditor to a committee or subcommittee, or an officer of the authority, or to any other authority. Subsection (3) states that the Mayor of London and London Assembly must jointly appoint the auditor for the Greater London Authority.

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