My Lords, Amendment 10 is a minor and technical amendment. It does not affect the intended effect of the Bill. Its purpose is to correct a reference in Schedule 2 so that it refers to Paragraph 7 of Schedule 4 to the Audit Commission Act 1998 rather than to Paragraph 5. Schedule 2 lists the relevant authorities to which the provisions of the Bill apply. Paragraph 29 of the schedule ensures that the Bill covers any bodies that were subject to audit provisions contained in enactments passed before the Audit Commission Act 1998, to which the provisions of the 1998 Act were then applied.
Paragraph 29 refers to Schedule 4 to the 1998 Act, which contains transitional and savings provisions. Paragraph 7 of Schedule 4 to the 1998 Act, rather than Paragraph 5, provided for references in previous enactments to earlier forms of audit, such as district audit, to be read as references to audit under the 1998
Act. Paragraph 29 of Schedule 2 is meant to extend this savings provision so that bodies covered by it will be covered by the Bill when the 1998 Act is repealed. That would be done better by my amendment. I beg to move.