http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2014/2/section/33/notesExplanatory Notes to Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014Department for Communities and Local GovernmentDepartment of HealthKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2018-08-23
<Citation URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2014/2" id="c00001" Class="UnitedKingdomPublicGeneralAct" Year="2014" Number="0002">Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014</Citation>
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30 January 2014
Commentary<CitationSubRef id="c00247" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2014/2/part/6" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="part-6">Part 6</CitationSubRef> – Data Matching
<CitationSubRef id="c00249" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2014/2/section/33" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="section-33">Section 33</CitationSubRef> and <CitationSubRef id="c00251" URI="http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ukpga/2014/2/schedule/9" CitationRef="c00001" SectionRef="schedule-9">Schedule 9</CitationSubRef>: Data matching
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Apart from transferring the power to conduct data matching exercises from the Audit Commission to the Secretary of State or the Minister for the Cabinet Office, and inserting the prevention and detection of errors and inaccuracies as a further potential purpose for which data matching exercises may be undertaken, the data matching powers set out in Schedule 9 and given effect to by section 33, are largely the same as the provisions inserted into the Audit Commission Act 1998 by the Serious Crime Act 2007.