The Public Audit

Act Number: 
No.29 of 2016

Date of Assent: 6th June, 2016

An Act to enhance the independence and autonomy of the National Audit Office and strengthen its functions; provide a framework for promoting efficiency, accountability, effectiveness and transparency of public administration through effective oversight and audit of public funds and performance; domesticate the principles of United Nations Resolution A/66/209 on promoting efficiency, accounta- bility, effectiveness and transparency of supreme audit institutions; provide for guiding principles of public finance and performance audit; repeal and replace the Public Audit Act, 1980; and provide for matters connected with, or incidental to the foregoing.

ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia. 

Volume: 
Acts of Parliament (Post 1997)