C6C5C8C4C10C9C7C11C3Part 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
Pt. 16 excluded (S.) (1.10.2024) by The Companies Act 2006 (Scottish public sector companies to be audited by the Auditor General for Scotland) Order 2024 (S.S.I. 2024/266), 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
F2Chapter 4Removal, resignation, etc of auditors
Ss. 519-526 amendment to earlier affecting provision S.I. 2008/1911, reg. 46 (6.5.2021) by The Supervision of Accounts and Reports (Prescribed Body) and Companies (Defective Accounts and Reports) (Authorised Person) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/465), arts. 1(2), 6(5) (with art. 9)
Removal of auditor
C2510C1Resolution removing auditor from office
1
The members of a company may remove an auditor from office at any time.
2
This power is exercisable only—
a
by ordinary resolution at a meeting, and
b
in accordance with section 511 (special notice of resolution to remove auditor).
3
Nothing in this section is to be taken as depriving the person removed of compensation or damages payable to him in respect of the termination—
a
of his appointment as auditor, or
b
of any appointment terminating with that as auditor.
F14
An auditor may not be removed from office before the expiration of his term of office except—
a
by resolution under this section, or
b
in accordance with section 511A.
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)