The Local Audit (Auditor Resignation and Removal) Regulations 2014

Application of these Regulations to policing bodies

2.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies to the resignation or removal of a local auditor of the accounts of—

(a) a chief constable for an area in England;

(b) the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.

(2) A relevant authority specified in paragraph (1) may not remove the local auditor of the accounts of that authority from that office.

(3) Anything that must or may be done under these Regulations by or in relation to a relevant authority in respect of a local auditor of the accounts of—

(a) a chief constable for an area in England must or may be done by or in relation to the police and crime commissioner for that area;

(b) the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis must or may be done by or in relation to the functional body(1) that is the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime.

(4) These Regulations have effect in relation to a police and crime commissioner and the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime (“specified relevant authorities”) subject to the following modifications—

(a) the duty on the local auditor of the specified relevant authority under regulation 3(1) includes a duty, at the same time, to give a copy of—

(i) the notice of resignation; and

(ii) the statement referred to in regulation 3(2),

to the chief constable for the area, or the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, as the case may be;

(b) the duty on the specified relevant authority under regulation 3(4)(a) includes a duty, at the same time, to give a copy of the notice to the chief constable for the area or the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, as the case may be;

(c) the duty on the auditor panel of the specified relevant authority under regulation 4(1)(c) includes a duty, within the period of three months beginning with the date the local auditor’s resignation takes effect, to give a copy of the statement to the chief constable for the area or the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, as the case may be;

(d) the duty on the specified relevant authority under regulation 6(1) includes a duty, at the same time, to give a copy of the notice to the chief constable for the area or the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, as the case may be;

(e) the duty on the specified relevant authority under regulation 6(3) includes a duty, as soon as practicable after receiving the local auditor’s response under regulation 6(2), to give a copy of the local auditor’s response to the chief constable for the area or the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, as the case may be;

(f) the duty on the auditor panel of the specified relevant authority under regulation 6(4) includes a duty, at the same time, to send a copy of the panel’s advice to the chief constable for the area or the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, as the case may be.

(g) the duty on the specified relevant authority under regulation 7(5)(a) to give a copy of the statement referred to in regulation 7(4) to the authority’s auditor panel includes a duty, at the same time, to give a copy of that statement to the chief constable for the area or the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, as the case may be.

(1)

See section 44(1) of the 2014 Act for the definition of “functional body”.