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Public Audit (Wales) Act 2004

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64B Mandatory provision of data

(1) The Auditor General for Wales may require— (a) any body mentioned in subsection (2), and (b) any officer or member of such a body, to provide the Auditor General or a person acting on his behalf by virtue of a delegation made under section 18 of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013 with such data (and in such form) as the Auditor General or that person may reasonably require for the purpose of conducting data matching exercises. (2) The bodies are— (a) a local government body in Wales (as defined in section 12(1)); (b) a Welsh NHS body (as defined in section 60). (3) A person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement of the Auditor General under subsection (1)(b) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction— (a) to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale, and (b) to an additional fine not exceeding £20 for each day on which the offence continues after conviction for that offence. (4) If an officer or member of a body is convicted of an offence under subsection (3), any expenses incurred by the Auditor General or by the Wales Audit Office in connection with proceedings for the offence, so far as not recovered from any other source, are recoverable from that body by the Wales Audit Office.

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64B Mandatory provision of data

(1) The Auditor General for Wales may require— (a) any body mentioned in subsection (2), and (b) any officer or member of such a body, to provide the Auditor General or a person acting on his behalf by virtue of a delegation made under section 18 of the Public Audit (Wales) Act 2013 with such data (and in such form) as the Auditor General or that person may reasonably require for the purpose of conducting data matching exercises. (2) The bodies are— (a) a local government body in Wales (as defined in section 12(1)); (b) a Welsh NHS body (as defined in section 60). (3) A person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement of the Auditor General under subsection (1)(b) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction— (a) to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale, and (b) to an additional fine not exceeding £20 for each day on which the offence continues after conviction for that offence. (4) If an officer or member of a body is convicted of an offence under subsection (3), any expenses incurred by the Auditor General or by the Wales Audit Office in connection with proceedings for the offence, so far as not recovered from any other source, are recoverable from that body by the Wales Audit Office.

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