Draft Order laid before the Scottish Parliament under section 483(5) of the Companies Act 2006, for approval by resolution of the Scottish Parliament.
Draft Scottish Statutory Instruments
Companies
Made
2024
Coming into force
1st October 2024
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 483(1) of the Companies Act 2006(1) and of all other powers enabling them to do so.
In accordance with section 483(2) the Companies Act 2006, it appears to the Scottish Ministers that Zero Waste Scotland Limited is entirely or substantially funded from a body having accounts falling within paragraph (a) or (b) of section 483(3) of that Act.
In accordance with section 483(5) of that Act, a draft of the Order has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the Scottish Parliament.
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Companies Act 2006 (Scottish public sector companies to be audited by the Auditor General for Scotland) Order 2024 and comes into force on 1 October 2024.
(2) In this Order “the company” means Zero Waste Scotland Limited, a private limited company bearing company number SC436030 and having its registered office at Ground Floor, Moray House, Forthside Way, Stirling, FK8 1QZ.
2. The accounts of the company are to be audited by the Auditor General for Scotland.
3. The requirements of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006 as to audit of accounts do not apply to the company for a financial year if its accounts are in that year to be audited by the Auditor General for Scotland.
Name
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
Date
(This note is not part of the Order)
Article 2 of this Order provides that Zero Waste Scotland Limited (“the company”), being a company with a registered office in Scotland, is to have its accounts audited by the Auditor General for Scotland. Article 3 provides that the company will be exempt from the auditing of company accounts requirements of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006.