Companies Act 2006

1240 Information to be made available to public U.K.

(1) The Secretary of State may make regulations requiring a person eligible for appointment as a statutory auditor, or a member of a specified class of such persons, to keep and make available to the public specified information, including information regarding—

(a) the person's ownership and governance,

(b) the person's internal controls with respect to the quality and independence of its audit work,

(c) the person's turnover, and

(d) the audited persons of whom the person has acted as statutory auditor.

(2) Regulations under this section may—

(a) impose such obligations as the Secretary of State thinks fit on persons eligible for appointment as a statutory auditor;

(b) require the information to be made available to the public in a specified manner.

(3) In this section “specified” means specified by regulations under this section.

(4) Regulations under this section are subject to negative resolution procedure.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 1240: functions transferred (temp.) (1.3.2008) by The Statutory Auditors (Delegation of Functions etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/496), art. 3

Commencement Information

I1 S. 1240 wholly in force at 6.4.2008; s. 1240 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 1300; s. 1240 in force for specified purposes at 20.1.2007 by S.I. 2006/3428, art. 3(3) (subject to art. 5, Sch. 1 and with arts. 6, 8, Sch. 5); s. 1240 in force at 6.4.2008 by S.I. 2007/3495, art. 3(1)(u) (with savings in arts. 7, 12, Sch. 4 paras. 37-42)