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Scottish Statutory Instruments
2021 No. 129
Companies
The Companies Act 2006 (Scottish public sector companies to be audited by the Auditor General for Scotland) Order 2021
Made
9th March 2021
Coming into force
10th March 2021
The Scottish Ministers make the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 483(1) and (4) of the Companies Act 2006( 1) and of all other powers enabling them to do so.
In accordance with section 483(2) of the Companies Act 2006, it appears to Scottish Ministers that Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Holdings Limited is entirely or substantially funded from a body having accounts falling within paragraph (a) or (b) of section 483(3) of that Act.
In accordance with section 483(5) of that Act, a draft of the Order has been laid before, and approved by resolution of, the Scottish Parliament.
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Companies Act 2006 (Scottish public sector companies to be audited by the Auditor General for Scotland) Order 2021 and comes into force on the day after it is made.
(2) In this Order “the Company” means Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Holdings Limited, a private limited company bearing company number SC638534 and having its registered office at Newark Works, Castle Road, Port Glasgow, Scotland, PA14 5NG.
Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Holdings Limited: audit by the Auditor General for Scotland
2. The accounts of the Company are to be audited by the Auditor General for Scotland.
Disapplication of audit requirements of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006
3. The requirements of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006 as to audit of accounts do not apply to the Company for a financial year if its accounts are in that year to be audited by the Auditor General for Scotland.
FIONA HYSLOP
A member of the Scottish Government
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
9th March 2021
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
Article 2 of this Order provides that Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Holdings Limited (“the Company”), being a company with a registered office in Scotland, is to have its accounts audited by the Auditor General for Scotland. Article 3 provides that the company will be exempt from the auditing of company accounts requirements of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006.