Havercroft with Cold Hiendley Parish Council

NOTICE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS AND PUBLICATION OF

UNAUDITED ANNUAL RETURN

ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2017

Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 Sections 26 and 27

The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/234)

1.     Date of announcement        25 APRIL 2017

2.     Each year the Parish Council’s annual return needs to be reviewed by an external auditor appointed by the Audit Commission.  The unaudited Annual Return 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 and receipts and other documents relating to those records must be made available for inspection by any person interested.  For the year ended 31st March 2017 these documents will be available on reasonable notice by application to:-

M K Neill MILCM

Clerk to Havercroft-with-Cold Hiendley Parish Council

20 Parkway, Crofton

WAKEFIELD.  WF4 1SX

between the hours of 11.00  to 16.00  Mondays to Fridays excluding public holidays by appointment with the Clerk to Havercroft-with-Cold Hiendley Parish Council on 01924 863573, commencing on Monday 5 June 2017 and ending on Friday 14 July 2017.

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 Clerk to Havercroft-with-Cold Hiendley Parish Council.

The appointed auditor can be contacted at the address in paragraph 4 below for this purpose between the above dates only.

4.     Havercroft-with-Cold Hiendley’s Annual Return 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:

PFK Littlejohn LLP

Ref: SBA

2nd Floor

1 Westferry Circus

Canary Wharf

London E14 4HD

(sba@pkf-littlejohn.com)

5.     This announcement is made by:

M K Neill MILCM   Clerk to Havercroft-with-Cold Hiendley Parish Council