The Audit Commission Act 1998 is amended as follows.
In section 17 (declaration that item of account is unlawful)—
subsection (1)(b),
in subsection (2), the words "subject to subsection (3)" and paragraphs (a) and (b), and
subsections (3), (5)(b), (7) and (8),
are omitted.
Section 18 (recovery of amount not accounted for etc.) is omitted.