3.—(1) For the year ending 31st March 2001 the amendments to the Audit Commission Act 1998(1) brought into force by article 2(e) above shall have effect to require each local probation board to arrange to make up and approve the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Audit Commission Act 1998 and the Accounts and Audit Regulations 1996(2) (which have effect as if made under that Act) of any probation committee whose probation area forms, immediately before the creation of that local board, all or part of its area.
(2) In this article, “probation committee” means a probation committee constituted under section 3 of the Probation Service Act 1993(3) as it has effect immediately before 1st April 2001.