C7C6C10C5C12C11C9C4Part 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))
Pt. 16 excluded (S.) (10.3.2021) by The Companies Act 2006 (Scottish public sector companies to be audited by the Auditor General for Scotland) Order 2021 (S.S.I. 2021/129), arts. 1(1), 3
Pt. 16 excluded (S.) (15.6.2022) by The Companies Act 2006 (Scottish public sector companies to be audited by the Auditor General for Scotland) Order 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/207), arts. 1(1), 3
Pt. 16 excluded (S.) (30.10.2022) by The Companies Act 2006 (Scottish public sector companies to be audited by the Auditor General for Scotland) (No. 2) Order 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/308), arts. 1(1), 3
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
C5Chapter 3Functions of auditor
Duties and rights of auditors
C1C2C3C8 498A F1Auditor's duties in relation to separate corporate governance statement
Where the company is required to prepare a corporate governance statement in respect of a financial year and no such statement is included in the directors' report—
a
the company's auditor, in preparing his report on the company's annual accounts for that year, must ascertain whether a corporate governance statement has been prepared, and
b
if it appears to the auditor that no such statement has been prepared, he must state that fact in his report.
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)