{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-auditors-and-third-country-auditors-regulations-2016/regulation-12",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/649",
  "legislation_title": "The Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statutory-auditors-and-third-country-auditors-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Contractual terms restricting choice of auditor",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to any term in a contract which, in relation to the conduct of a statutory audit of an audited person other than a person which is a public interest entity, provides for the restriction of the audited person’s choice of statutory auditor to certain categories or lists of statutory auditors.\n(2) A term to which this regulation applies has no effect.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 substituted (1.5.2017) by The Statutory Auditors and Third Country Auditors Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/516), regs. 1(2), 14(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/649/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:22:47.056553+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."
}