{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-1253D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006/section-1253D.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2006/46",
  "legislation_title": "Companies Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/companies-act-2006",
  "path": "section/1253D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1253D",
  "heading": "Restriction on transfer of audit working papers to third countries",
  "text": "(1) Audit working papers and investigation reports must not be transferred to a third country competent authority unless the third country competent authority is an approved third country competent authority and the transfers are made in accordance with—\n(a) section 1253DA (transfer by Secretary of State),\n(b) section 1253DB (transfer by statutory auditor with approval of Secretary of State), or\n(c) section 1253DC (transfer by statutory auditor for purposes of investigation of auditor).\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Nothing in the sections referred to in subsection (1) authorises the making of a disclosure in contravention of the data protection legislation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 1253D-1253F and cross-heading inserted (6.4.2008) by The Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3494), reg. 15(1) (with reg. 15(2) (as amended by S.I. 2008/499), reg. 2(4)))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 1253D-1253DE substituted for s. 1253D (15.11.2010) by The Companies Act 2006 (Transfer of Audit Working Papers to Third Countries) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/2537), regs. 1(2), 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 1253D(1) substituted (17.6.2016) by The Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/649), reg. 1(1)(a), Sch. 3 para. 43(2) (with reg. 1(2)(b))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 1253D(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/177), regs. 2, 20(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 1253D(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/177), regs. 2, 20(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 1253D(3) substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 126 (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2006/46/section/1253D",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:40.060156+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}