§ Amendments made: No. 272, in page 27, line 37, leave out from beginning to 'shall' and insert 'Scottish legislation'.
No. 148, in page 27, line 41, leave out from 'of' to end of line 42 and insert 'their expenditure and receipts'.
No. 273, in page 28, line 3, leave out
`appointment of an independent person'
and insert 'Auditor General for Scotland'.
No. 274, in page 28, line 6, leave out from 'access' to `and' in line 7 and insert
`by persons exercising those functions to such documents as they may reasonably require,
( ) for members of the staff of the Scottish Administration designated for the purpose to be answerable to the Parliament in respect of the expenditure and receipts of each part of the Scottish Administration'.
No. 275, in page 28, line 8, leave out from first 'of' to first 'and' in line 9 and insert
`parliamentary accounts and of reports on such accounts'.
No. 276, in page 28, line 13, leave out from `examining' to end of line and insert 'parliamentary accounts'.
No. 277, in page 28, line 22, leave out 'the rules' and insert 'Scottish legislation'.
No. 278, in page 28, line 26, at end insert—
`( ) There shall be an Auditor General for Scotland who shall be an independent person appointed by Her Majesty on the nomination of the Parliament.
( ) A recommendation shall not be made to Her Majesty for the removal from office of the Auditor General for Scotland unless the Parliament so resolves and, if the resolution is passed on a division, the number of members voting in favour is not less than two-thirds of the total number of seats for members of the Parliament.'
No. 279, in page 28, line 29, at end insert—
'(4A) Subsection (1)(a) does not apply in relation to any cross-border public authority if any enactment not contained in Scottish legislation requires—
- (a) the authority to prepare accounts of the expenditure and receipts, or of any part of the expenditure and receipts, of the authority, and
- (b) the accounts to be examined, certified and reported on by the Auditor General for Scotland.
(4C) This section does not require Scottish legislation to impose any requirement which is imposed by any enactment not contained in such legislation.
(4D) In this section—
parliamentary accounts" means the accounts prepared in pursuance of subsection (1)(a) or (b) and the accounts referred to in subsection (4A),
Scottish legislation" means provision made by or under an Act of the Scottish Parliament'.—[Mr. McLeish.]