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# The Public Interest Reports and Recommendations (Modification of Consideration Procedure) Regulations 2014

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2014 No. 1629
Local Government, England And Wales
The Public Interest Reports and Recommendations (Modification of Consideration Procedure) Regulations 2014
Made
23rd June 2014
Laid before Parliament
27th June 2014
Coming into force
1st April 2015
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 5(10) of Schedule 7 to the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014:

## 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation {#regulation-1}

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Public Interest Reports and Recommendations (Modification of Consideration Procedure) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 1st April 2015.
(2) In these Regulations “the 2014 Act” means the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014.

## 2 Modification of consideration procedure {#regulation-2}

(1) Paragraph 5 of Schedule 7 to the 2014 Act applies to the relevant authorities specified in regulation 3 with the following modifications.
(2) Sub-paragraph (5) is to be read as if for the words from “before the end of the period of one month” to the end of that sub-paragraph, there were substituted “as soon as is reasonably practicable after it has been received.”.
(3) Sub-paragraph (8) is to be read as if for the words “of one month”, there were substituted “for consideration”.

## 3 Relevant authorities subject to modified procedure {#regulation-3}

The relevant authorities referred to in regulation 2 are—
(a) a port health authority for a port health district that is wholly in England;
(b) an internal drainage board for an internal drainage district that is wholly in England; and
(c) any person or body exercising functions in relation to an area wholly in England or partly in England and partly in Wales—
(i) which was originally subject to audit provisions contained in an enactment passed before the Audit Commission Act 1998 and
(ii) to which the audit provisions of that Act applied by virtue of paragraph 4(1) or 7 of Schedule 4 to that Act immediately before the repeal of section 2(1) of that Act by the 2014 Act.