C3C4C5C6C2Part 16Audit
Pt. 16 excluded (8.4.2020) by Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Act 2019 (c. 27), s. 14(2)(3), Sch. 2 para. 9(9)
Pt. 16 excluded (S.) (26.11.2020) by The Companies Act 2006 (Scottish public sector companies to be audited by the Auditor General for Scotland) Order 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/402), arts. 1(1), 3
Pts. 1-39 modified (31.12.2020) by Regulation (EC) No. 2157/2001, Art. AAA1(3) (as inserted by The European Public Limited-Liability Company (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1298), regs. 1, 97 (with regs. 140-145) (as amended by S.I. 2020/523, regs. 1(2), 5(a)-(f)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1))
Pts. 1-39 (except for Pt. 7 and ss. 662-669), 45-47 extended (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 5(1), Sch. 1 para. 2
C6Chapter 2Appointment of auditors
General provisions
I1C1493Disclosure of terms of audit appointment
1
The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations for securing the disclosure of the terms on which a company's auditor is appointed, remunerated or performs his duties.
Nothing in the following provisions of this section affects the generality of this power.
2
The regulations may—
a
require disclosure of—
i
a copy of any terms that are in writing, and
ii
a written memorandum setting out any terms that are not in writing;
b
require disclosure to be at such times, in such places and by such means as are specified in the regulations;
c
require the place and means of disclosure to be stated—
i
in a note to the company's annual accounts (in the case of its individual accounts) or in such manner as is specified in the regulations (in the case of group accounts),
ii
inF1the strategic report or the directors' report, or
iii
in the auditor's report on the company's annual accounts.
3
The provisions of this section apply to a variation of the terms mentioned in subsection (1) as they apply to the original terms.
4
Regulations under this section are subject to affirmative resolution procedure.
Pt. 16 applied (with modifications) (8.12.2017) by The Risk Transformation Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1212), regs. 1(2), 162, 163 (with reg. 189)