SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 E+W+S Registered social landlords: regulation

Part III E+W+S Accounts and audit

[F1 Companies exempt from audit requirements: accountant’s report E+W+S

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1 para. 16A and cross-heading inserted (18.1.2005) by Housing Act 2004 (c. 34), s. 270(3)(c), Sch. 11 para. 18

[F2 16D. (1) The provisions of the Companies Act 2006 listed in sub-paragraph (2) apply to the reporting accountant and a reporting accountant’s report as they apply to an auditor of the company and an auditor’s report on the company’s accounts, subject to any necessary modifications. E+W+S

(2) The provisions are—

(a) sections 423 to 425 (duty to circulate copies of annual accounts);

(b) sections 431 and 432 (right of member or debenture holder to demand copies of accounts);

(c) sections 434 to 436 (requirements in connection with publication of accounts);

(d) sections 437 and 438 (public companies: laying of accounts before general meeting);

(e) sections 441 to 444 (duty to file accounts with registrar of companies);

(f) section 454(4)(b) and regulations made under that provision (functions of auditor in relation to revised accounts);

(g) sections 499 to 501 (auditor’s right to information);

(h) sections 505 and 506 (name of auditor to be stated in published copies of report).

(3) In sections 505 and 506 as they apply by virtue of this paragraph in a case where the reporting accountant is a firm, any reference to the senior statutory auditor shall be read as a reference to the person who signed the report on behalf of the firm.]]

Textual Amendments

F2 Sch. 1 paras. 16A-16E substituted for Sch. 1 para. 16A (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 202(3) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)