The Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (Transfer of Property, Rights and Liabilities of the Audit Commission for Local Authorities and the National Health Service in England and Wales) Order 2005
This Order transfers property, rights and liabilities from the Audit Commission for Local Authorities and the National Health Service in England and Wales (“the Audit Commission”), to the Auditor General for Wales, in order to enable him to carry out the new functions conferred on him by the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004 (“the Act”). The most significant effect of the new functions is that the Auditor General for Wales (“the Auditor General”) will, from the coming into force of the Act, exercise most of the functions currently exercised in Wales by the Audit Commission. The Order is to take effect on 1 April 2005 (“the transfer date”).