{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-appointing-person-regulations-2015/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-appointing-person-regulations-2015/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/192",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Audit (Appointing Person) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-appointing-person-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Additional functions of appointing person",
  "text": "A specified appointing person must—\n(a) keep and maintain a record of which principal authorities are opted in authorities and publish that record on a website;\n(b) design and implement appropriate systems to—\n(i) oversee issues of independence of any auditor which it has appointed, arising both at the time of appointment and when undertaking audit work;\n(ii) monitor compliance by a local auditor against the contractual obligations in an audit contract;\n(iii) resolve disputes or complaints from—\n(aa) local auditors, opted in authorities and local government electors relating to audit contracts and the carrying out of audit work by auditors it has appointed;\n(bb) authorities regarding the refusal of a request to become an opted in authority under regulation 11.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 10.2.2015 in accordance with, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/192/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:48:15.985702+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."
}