Allerston and Wilton Parish Council NOTICE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS AND PUBLICATION OF UNAUDITED ANNUAL GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY RETURN ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2022
Allerston and Wilton Parish Council
NOTICE
OF PUBLIC RIGHTS AND PUBLICATION
OF UNAUDITED ANNUAL GOVERNANCE &
ACCOUNTABILITY RETURN
ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2022
Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 Sections 26 and 27
The Accounts and Audit Regulations
2015 (SI 2015/234
NOTICE
1. Date of announcement 23rd May 2022 (a)
2. Each
year the smaller authority's Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR)
needs to be reviewed by an external auditor appointed by
Smaller Authorities' Audit Appointments Ltd. The unaudited AGAR has been
published with this notice. As it has yet to be reviewed
by the appointed auditor,
it is subject to change as a result of that review.
Any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the accounting records for the financial year to which the audit relates and all books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers, receipts and other documents relating to those records must be made available for inspection by any person interested. For the year ended 31 March 2022, these documents will be available
on reasonable notice by application to:
(b)
Lesley Myers Waterways Main Street Allerston Y018 7PG
01723 859237
07584196625
commencing on (c) _Monday 13 June 2022
and ending on (d) Friday 22 July 2022
3. Local government electors and their representatives also have:
• The opportunity to question the appointed auditor about the accounting
records; and
• The right to make an objection which concerns a matter in respect of which
the appointed auditor could either make a public interest report or apply to the court for a declaration that an item of account is unlawful. Written notice of an objection must first be given to the auditor and a copy sent to the smaller authority.
The appointed auditor can be contacted at the address in paragraph 4 below for this purpose between the above dates only.
4. The smaller authority's AGAR is subject to
review by the appointed auditor under the provisions of the Local Audit and
Accountability Act 2014, the
Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 and the NAO's Code of
Audit Practice 2015. The appointed auditor is:
PKF Littlejohn LLP (Ref: SBA Team)
15 Westferry Circus
Canary
Wharf
London E14 4HD
(sba@pkf-Leorn)
5. This announcement is made by (e) Lesley Myers RFO
Notes
(a) Insert date of placing of the notice
which must be not less than 1 day before the
date in (c)
(b) Insert name, position and
address/telephone number/
email
address, as appropriate, of the Clerk or
other person to which any
person may
apply to inspect the accounts
(c) Insert date, which must be at least 1
day after the date of announcement in (a)
above
and at least 30 working days
before the date appointed in (d) below
(d) The
inspection period between (c)
and (d) must be 30 working
days
inclusive and must include the first 10
working days of July.
(e) Insert name and position of person
placing the notice — this person must be the responsible financial officer for the
smaller authority