division_name: Local Audit and Accountability Bill [HL] &#8212; <i>Third Reading</i>
motion: <p class="italic" pid="a.1318.3/1" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">Amendment 1</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="a.1318.3/2" pwmotiontext="unrecognized"> Moved by Lord Wills</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1318.3/3" pwmotiontext="unrecognized"><b>1:</b> After Clause 22, insert the following new Clause&#8212;</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1318.3/4" pwmotiontext="unrecognized">&#8220;Auditor&#8217;s right to documents and information of significant private contractors</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1318.3/5" pwmotiontext="lines">(1) A local auditor has a right of access at all reasonable times to audit documents from significant private companies that the local authority have contracted services to during the last financial year.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1318.3/6" pwmotiontext="lines">(2) Local auditors only have a right of access to audit documents from private companies, under subsection (1), that relate to the service provided to the local authority by that company.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1318.3/7" pwmotiontext="lines">(3) A local auditor must make available on request any audit documents, obtained under subsection (1), subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1318.3/8" pwmotiontext="lines">(4) In this section &#8220;private company&#8221; shall be interpreted to mean any legal entity, including joint ventures, not-for-profit organisations, mutually-held organisations and charities.</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1318.3/9" pwmotiontext="lines">(5) Five years after the coming into force of this section, the Secretary of State must commission and publish a review of the effectiveness of subsections (1) to (3) and of the costs to local auditors, private companies and local authorities arising from it.&#8221;</p>