Smaller authority name: Tockenham Parish Council

NOTICE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS AND PUBLICATION OF UNAUDITED ANNUAL GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY RETURN

ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2024

Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 Sections 26 and 27

The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/234)

NOTICE NOTES

1. Date of announcement23/05/2024 (a)

2. Each year the smaller authority’s Annual Governance and Accountability

Return (AGAR) needs to be reviewed by an external auditor appointed by

Smaller Authorities’ Audit Appointments Ltd. The unaudited AGAR has been

published with this notice. As it has yet to be reviewed by the appointed auditor,

it is subject to change as a result of that review.

Any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the

accounting records for the financial year to which the audit relates and all

books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers, receipts and other documents relating

to those records must be made available for inspection by any person

interested. For the year ended 31 March 2024, these documents will be available

on reasonable notice by application to:

(b) clerk@tockenhamparishcouncil.gov.uk

commencing on (c) __Monday 3 June 2024 _______________________

and ending on (d) ___Friday 12 July 2024 ________________________

3. Local government electors and their representatives also have:

· The opportunity to question the appointed auditor about the accounting

records; and

· The right to make an objection which concerns a matter in respect of which

the appointed auditor could either make a public interest report or apply to

the court for a declaration that an item of account is unlawful. Written notice

of an objection must first be given to the auditor and a copy sent to the

smaller authority.

The appointed auditor can be contacted at the address in paragraph 4 below for

this purpose between the above dates only.

4. The smaller authority’s AGAR is subject to review by the appointed auditor

under the provisions of the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014, the

Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 and the NAO’s Code of Audit Practice

2015. The appointed auditor is:

PKF Littlejohn LLP (Ref: SBA Team)

15 Westferry Circus

Canary Wharf

London E14 4HD

(sba@pkf-l.com)

5. This announcement is made by (e) Rita Harris, Clerk to Tockenham Parish

Council.

Notice Date: 23/05/2024