Monday, 21 April 2014

(12.12.3) Remuneration of Auditors



is fixed by the Board of Directors as regards appointments made by it. As regards other appointments, the company in general meeting fixes the remuneration.

Section 225 makes provision for a resolution relating to appointment or removal of auditor. A special notice must be given of a resolution at the AGM (i) to appoint a person other than a retiring auditor; or (ii) to provide that a retiring auditor shall not be re-appointed. When the company receives this notice, it must forthwith send a copy of it to the retiring auditor. The retiring auditors may make a written representation to the company and ask that the same should be sent to all the members. The company must, unless it receives the representation too late (i) state the fact of the representation having been made, in any notice of the resolution given to the members; and (ii) send a copy of the representation to every member to whom notice of the meeting is sent. If a copy is not sent out in this way because the representation was received too late or because of the company's default, then the auditor may demand that his statement shall be read out at the meeting. He shall, of course, have the right to be heard orally at the meeting. However, the copies of the representation need not be sent out, nor need the representation be read out, if the company or any aggrieved person applies to the Company Law Board (CLB) and the CLB thinks that the auditor is abusing his rights to secure needless publicity for defamatory matter.

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