Audit of Accounts for Braintree District Council for year ended 31st March 2011

Audit Commission Act 1998, sections 15 – 16, Accounts and Audit (England) Regulations 2011 Sections 9 and 10

The Council’s accounts are subject to external audit by PKF (UK) LLP Accountants and Business Advisors of 16 The Havens, Ransomes Europark, Ipswich, Suffolk IP3 9SJ.   Members of the public and local government electors have certain rights in the audit process:

1.      From 5th July 2011 to 1st August 2011 between 9.00am and 5.00pm any person may inspect the accounts of the Council for the year ended 31st March 2011 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 9.30am on 2nd August 2011 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 9.30am on 2nd August 2011 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.

S L Lowe
Assistant Chief Executive
Braintree District Council,
Causeway House, Bocking End, Braintree, Essex CM7 9HB

1st June 2011