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the allowance payable to the Auditor-General under that section, and that remuneration and allowance" and substituting the words "at which salary is payable under section 4 to the Auditor-General and of allowances at the respective rates at which allowances are payable under that section to the Auditor-General, and that remuneration".

(2) Salary and allowances paid before the commencement of this section to a person acting as the Auditor-General by reference to the respective rates at which salary and allowances were payable to the Auditor-General under the Remuneration and Allowances Act 1973, or under a determination in force under the Remuneration Tribunal Act 1973 or that Act as subsequently amended, shall be deemed to have been lawfully paid.
8. (1) Section 11 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section substituted:

Auditor-General may appoint persons to inspect and audit accounts, and to carry out efficiency audits
"11. (1) The Auditor-General may, by instrument under his hand—
      (a) appoint a person to inspect, examine and audit any accounts, records or stores which are required by this Act, or by any other Act, to be inspected, examined or audited by the Auditor-General, and to report the results of an inspection, examination or audit carried out by him under the appointment to the Auditor-General; or
      (b) appoint a person to inspect, examine and audit the accounts, records or stores specified in the instrument (being accounts, records or stores that are required by this Act, or by any other Act, to be inspected, examined or audited by the Auditor-General) and to report the results of the inspection, examination or audit to the Auditor-General,
and a person so appointed has, by virtue of his appointment, power to inspect any accounts, records or stores that are required to be so inspected, examined or audited by the Auditor-General or to inspect the accounts, records or stores specified in the instrument, as the case may be.
"(2) The Auditor-General may, by instrument under his hand, appoint a person—
      (a) to carry out any efficiency audits of operations of relevant bodies that the Auditor-General is required by this Act, or by any other Act, to carry out, and to report the results of an efficiency audit carried out under the appointment to the Auditor-General;
      (b) to carry out an efficiency audit of the operations, or specified operations, of a specified relevant body, and to report the results of the audit to the Auditor-General;
      (c) to examine the operations or procedures of any relevant body for the purposes of an efficiency audit of the operations of the body that is being, or is to be, carried out by the Auditor-General, and to report the results of the examination to