Section 65Part 7 — Audit Office - Auditor General
Appointment of contractors
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65. (1) The Auditor General may engage a person under contract to carry out, or assist in the carrying out of, any audit or investigation that the Auditor General is required to or may carry out.
With the agreement of the Auditor General, a statutory authority or government company may engage a person under subsection (1) to carry out the audit of its annual financial statements.
Any person who is currently engaged, or who has within the previous twelve months been engaged, under section 69 as the auditor of the Auditor General may not be engaged under subsection (1).
The Auditor General may delegate in writing all or any of the Auditor General’s powers to a person engaged under this section, and section 40 applies, with all necessary modifications, to any such delegation as if every reference in those subsections to a chief officer were a reference to the Auditor General. Accountability Arrangements in Relation to Audit Office