By law any interested person has the right to inspect a council’s/meeting’s accounts. If you are entitled and registered to vote in local council elections then you (or your representative) have additional rights to ask the appointed auditor questions about the Council’s accounts or object to an item of account contained within them.
When your council has finalised its accounts for the previous financial year it must advertise that they are available for people to inspect. Having given the Council reasonable notice of your intentions, you then have 30 working days to look through the accounting statements in the Annual Return and any supporting documents. By arrangement, you will be able to inspect and make copies of the accounts and the relevant documents. You may have to pay a copying charge.
For further information regarding public rights click the following link: A Summary of Public Rights
The notification of the dates for the exercise of public rights is at the following link: 2025 Notice of appointment of date for the exercise of public rights, or navigate via the following menus, Council, Meetings, Finance, and the notice is with the 2024-25 Annual Return Documents section.
Published: 30/06/2025 Published by: Healeyfield Parish Council
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