5. In Article 245 of the 1986 Order (duties of auditors)(1) after paragraph (4) insert—
“(5) If the directors of the company have taken advantage of the exemption conferred by Article 256 (exemption for small and medium-sized groups from the need to prepare group accounts) and in the auditors' opinion they were not entitled so to do, the auditors shall state that fact in their report.”.
Article 245 was inserted into the 1986 Order by Article 11 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 in place of an existing Article of that number