{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ports-finance-act-1985/section-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ports-finance-act-1985/section-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/30",
  "legislation_title": "Ports (Finance) Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ports-finance-act-1985",
  "path": "section/4",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Audit of certain harbour authorities’ accounts.",
  "text": "(1) Where by virtue of an existing local provision any function of appointing or revoking the appointment of the auditor of a relevant harbour authority or determining the amount of the remuneration or expenses payable to such an auditor is exercisable by a Minister of the Crown, it shall be exercisable instead by the authority itself; and any requirement that the consent or approval of such a Minister be given with respect to the exercise of such a function shall cease to have effect.\n(2) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any such provision, a person shall not be appointed as auditor of a relevant harbour authority unless he is eligible for appointment as a statutory auditor under Part 42 of the Companies Act 2006.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(2) substituted (1.10.1991) by S.I. 1991/1997, reg. 2, Sch. para. 54 (with reg. 4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 4(2) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 1(ee) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/30/section/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:00:19.903825+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."
}