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(1)The Secretary of State may authorise for the purposes of section 245B any person appearing to him—
(a)to have an interest in, and to have satisfactory procedures directed to securing, compliance by companies with the accounting requirements of this Act,
(b)to have satisfactory procedures for receiving and investigating complaints about the annual accounts of companies, and
(c)otherwise to be a fit and proper person to be authorised.
(2)A person may be authorised generally or in respect of particular classes of case, and different persons may be authorised in respect of different classes of case.
(3)The Secretary of State may refuse to authorise a person if he considers that his authorisation is unnecessary having regard to the fact that there are one or more other persons who have been or are likely to be authorised.
(4)Authorisation shall be by order made by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
(5)Where authorisation is revoked, the revoking order may make such provision as the Secretary of State thinks fit with respect to pending proceedings.
(6)Neither a person authorised under this section, nor any officer, servant or member of the governing body of such a person, shall be liable in damages for anything done or purporting to be done for the purposes of or in connection with—
(a)the taking of steps to discover whether there are grounds for an application to the court,
(b)the determination whether or not to make such an application, or
(c)the publication of its reasons for any such decision,
unless the act or omission is shown to have been in bad faith.]
Textual Amendments
F1New ss. 245–245C inserted (subject to the saving and transitional provisions in S.I. 1990/2569, art. 6) by Companies Act 1989 (c. 40, SIF 27), ss. 1, 12, 213(2) as part of the text inserted in place of ss. 221–262 (as mentioned in s. 1(a) of the 1989 Act)
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