News Update
NOTICE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS AND PUBLICATION OF UNAUDITED ANNUAL GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY RETURN
ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024
Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 Sections 26 and 27
The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/234)
NOTICE
- Date of announcement Tuesday 11 June 2024
- 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 2024, these documents will be available on reasonable notice by application to:
Jackie Bennetts, Parish Clerk and RFO
Dartmoor Forest Parish Council
Applegarth
Walkhampton, Yelverton
PL20 6JP
Tel no: 01822 859104 Email: clerk@dartmoorforestparishcouncil.gov.uk
commencing on Monday 17 June 2024
and ending on Friday 26 July 2024
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 Miss J Bennetts
17th June 2024