{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-537/article-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-537/article-24.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2014/537",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 537/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on specific requirements regarding statutory audit of public-interest entities and repealing Commission Decision 2005/909/EC (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-537",
  "path": "article/24",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Delegation of tasks",
  "text": "1. Where the competent authority delegates any of the competent authority's tasks to a recognised supervisory body under regulation 3 of the Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors Regulations 2016, this must not include tasks related to—\n(a) the quality assurance system referred to in Article 26;\n(b) investigations carried out under powers in the Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors Regulations 2016 arising from that quality assurance system or from a referral by another authority; and\n(c) the imposition of sanctions and the taking of measures under regulations 5 to 8 of the Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors Regulations 2016 related to the quality assurance reviews or investigation of statutory audits of public interest entities.\n2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n3. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 24(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/177), regs. 2, 98(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 24(2)(3) excepted from duty to publish (31.12.2020) by The Exception from the Duty to Publish (Department for Business and Trade) (No. 1) Direction 2023 (No. 1), Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 24(3) expressed to be 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, 98(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 24(4) 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, 98(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/537/article/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:47:39.197860+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."
}