South Holland District Council
AUDIT OF ACCOUNTS YEAR ENDED 31 March 2012
Audit Commission Act 1998, sections 15 - 16
Accounts and Audit (England) Regulations 2011 Regulations 9, 10, 21, 22 & 24
The Council’s accounts are subject to external audit by Tony Crawley, District Auditor of the Audit Commission, Mill House, Brayford Wharf North, Lincoln, LN1 1YT. Members of the public and local government electors have certain rights in the audit process:
1. From 31 May 2012 to 29 June 2012 between 9am and 5pm any person may inspect the accounts of the Council for the year ended 31 March 2012 and certain related documents (comprising books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers and receipts) at the address given below. They may also make copies of the accounts and documents.
2. From 10am on 2nd July 2012 until the conclusion of the audit process, a local government elector for the area of the Council, or his/her representative, may ask the auditor questions about the accounts. Please contact the auditor at the address given above to make arrangements to ask any questions.
3. From 10am on 2nd July 2012 until the conclusion of the audit process, a local government elector for the area of the Council, or his/her representative, may object to the Council’s accounts asking that the auditor issue a report in the public interest (under section 8 of the Audit Commission Act 1998) and/or apply to the court for a declaration that an item in the accounts is contrary to law (under section 17 of the Audit Commission Act 1998). Written notice of a proposed objection and the grounds on which it is made must be sent to the auditor at the address given above and copied to me at the address given below.
Dated 1 May 2012
Chief Executive Terry Huggins
South Holland District Council, Council Offices, Priory Road, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 2XE
Telephone 01775 761161
