Companies (Statutory Audits) Act 2018

Amendment of Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Act 2015

74. The Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Act 2015 is amended—

(a) in section 2, by the deletion of the definition of “Audits Regulations”,

(b) in section 123, by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (1):

“(1) No person other than—

(a) a statutory auditor or audit firm approved in accordance with Part 27 of the Companies Act 2014 , or

(b) an audit firm registered in accordance with section 1465 of the Companies Act 2014 ,

shall be eligible for appointment as an auditor of an ICAV.”,

(c) in section 131, by the substitution of “ section 1544 of the Companies Act 2014 ” for “Regulation 101 of the Audits Regulations”, and

(d) in section 139, by the substitution of “Chapter 11 of Part 27 of the Companies Act 2014 ” for “Chapter 3 of Part 4 of the Audits Regulations”.