Notice of Public Rights

The Parish Council approved its Annual Governance and Accounting Statements for 20xx-20xy at a meeting on insert date. These documents have been submitted to the external auditor and are available to review on this website.

Any resident has the right to inspect the accounting records and associated document for a 30 working-day period starting on insert date. Please see the attached notice for details.

Notice of Public Rights

Year End Accounts

The right to inspect the accounting records

Any interested person can inspect the accounting records, which includes but is not limited to local electors. You can inspect 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. Your inspection must be about the accounts, or relate to an item in the accounts.

If you are a local government elector for the area to which the accounts relate you can also ask questions about the accounts and object to them. You do not have to pay directly for exercising your rights. However, any resulting costs incurred by the parish council form part of its running costs. Therefore, indirectly, local residents pay through their council tax for the cost for you to exercise those rights.