Part VI Accounts and Audit

Auditors’ report on annual accounts

74F1Signature of auditor’s report

1

The auditor’s report to the members of a friendly society or registered branch must state the name of the auditor and be signed and dated.

2

Where the auditor is an individual, the report must be signed by him.

3

Where the auditor is a firm, the report must be signed—

a

in the case of a friendly society to which the Audit Directive applies, by the senior statutory auditor in his own name, for and on behalf of the firm;

b

in any other case—

i

in the name of the firm by a person authorised to sign on its behalf, or

ii

if the firm has identified a senior statutory auditor in relation to the audit, by that person, in his own name, for and on behalf of the firm.