# The Local Audit (Health Service Bodies Auditor Panel and Independence) Regulations 2015, Regulation 4: Further functions of auditor panels: non-audit services

Extent: E+W

(1) The auditor panel must—
(a) advise on the contents of a health service body’s policy on the purchase from the body’s local auditor, of non-audit services; and
(b) approve such a policy.
(2) The policy mentioned in paragraph (1) must include—
(a) the circumstances or manner in which the health service body may or may not purchase non-audit services from the body’s local auditor; and
(b) the circumstances or manner in which the health service body may ask the auditor panel for advice.
(3) In this regulation, “non-audit services” in relation to a health service body means services provided by the health service body’s local auditor to the body other than in the exercise of the functions of the local auditor under the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/18/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-audit-health-service-bodies-auditor-panel-and-independence-regulations-2015/regulation-4
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