Explanatory Memorandum to Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005 Explanatory Memorandum

Part Ii – Auditors, Accounts, Directors’ Liabilities and Investigations.Auditors

7.Articles 3 and 4 place additional requirements on bodies wishing to be recognised for the purposes of supervising auditors.

8.Articles 5 to 7 deal with the delegation of functions by the Department in relation to auditors.

9.Article 8 sets out circumstances in which the Department may recognise overseas qualifications to allow persons to act as auditor of a company.

10.Article 9 enables the Department, by regulations, to require companies to publish more information about the types of services they have purchased from their auditors.

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