Notice of Electors Rights 2024/2025
HORLEY TOWN COUNCIL
NOTICE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS AND PUBLICATION
OF UNAUDITED ANNUAL GOVERNANCE &
ACCOUNTABILITY RETURN
ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2025
Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 Sections 26 and 27
The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/234)
NOTICE
1. Date of announcement 20 June 2025
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 2025, these documents will be available on reasonable notice
by application to:
Joan Walsh, Chief Executive Officer,
Horley Town Council,
92 Albert Road,
Horley,
RH6 7HZ,
Tel: 01293 784765,
Email: info@horleysurrey-tc.gov.uk
commencing on Monday 23 June 2025
and ending on Friday 01 August 2025
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 Sam Adeniji – Responsible Finance Officer
Notice of Electors Rights 2024/25
