Vowchurch & District Group 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
NOTES
1. Date of announcement 20
th
June 2022
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) Mrs Linda Cowles, Clerk/RFO. The Granary, Winforton Courtyard. HR3 6EA
Email. vowchurchparishclerk@hotmail.com. Tel. 01544 321906
commencing on (c) Tuesday 21
st
June 2022
and ending on (d) Monday 1
st
August 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-l.com)
5. This announcement is made by (e) Mrs Linda Cowles, Clerk/RFO
(a) Insert date of placing of the notice
which must be not less than 1 day before
the date in (c) below
(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
