Appointment of auditors
6.—(1) Sections 485 (appointment of auditors of private company: general), 486 (appointment of auditors of private company: default power of Secretary of State), 487 (term of office of auditors of private company) and 488 (prevention by members of deemed re-appointment of auditor) of the Companies Act 2006 apply in relation to the appointment of auditors of an insurance undertaking subject—
(a)where the undertaking concerned is unincorporated, to any necessary modifications to take account of that fact,
(b)to the modifications made by paragraph (2), and
(c)to paragraph (3).
(2) The modifications are—
(a)in section 485(2)(a), the reference to “the time allowed for sending out copies of the company’s annual accounts and reports” is to be construed as a reference to the time allowed under regulation 3(2)(a) of these Regulations for preparing the accounts required by regulation 3;
(b)in section 485(2)(b), the reference to “the day on which copies of the company’s annual accounts and reports for the previous financial year are sent out under section 423” is to be construed as a reference to the day on which the accounts required by regulation 3 are prepared;
(c)in section 487(3), the reference to “the provisions of this Part as to removal and resignation of auditors” is to be construed as a reference to provisions in these Regulations, and to any public general Act governing an insurance undertaking, as to removal and resignation of auditors;
(d)in section 488(3)(c), the reference to “the accounting reference period” is to be construed as a reference to the financial year.
(3) Sections 1121 (liability of officer in default), 1122 (liability of company as officer in default), 1123 (application to bodies other than companies) and 1130 (proceedings against unincorporated bodies) of the Companies Act 2006 apply in relation to an offence committed under section 486(3) of that Act as applied by this regulation.
(4) This regulation does not apply in relation to industrial and provident societies which prepare accounts under the provisions of these Regulations.