Coronavirus (COVID-19): letter to councils about extending the statutory audit deadlines for 2019 to 2020
Letter from MHCLG to local authority chief executives on the Accounts and Audit (Coronavirus)(Amendment) Regulations 2020.
Applies to England
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Letter from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government informing local authority chief executives that:
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the publication date for final, audited, accounts will move from 31 July for Category 1 authorities and 30 September for Category 2 authorities to 30 November 2020 for all local authority bodies
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to give local authorities more flexibility, the requirement for the public inspection period to include the first 10 working days of June (for Category 1 authorities) and July (for Category 2 authorities) has been removed. Instead local authorities must commence the public inspection period on or before the first working day of September 2020.
The regulations implementing these measures were laid on 7 April and are due to come into force on 30 April 2020.