Annual Exercise of Public Rights
Each year, Council must nominate a period of 30 working days, including the first 10 working days of July, to enable the inspection of the following records by any person interested:
- Annual Governance & Accountability Return (AGAR) Form 2 (statement of accounts prepared by the Council)
- Accounting records for the financial year to which the audit relates
- All books, deeds, contracts, bills, vouchers, receipts and other documents relating to those records
Many of the above records can be found here.
This year's nominated period for the exercise of public rights is as follows:
Chitterne Parish Council
NOTICE OF PUBLIC RIGHTS AND PUBLICATION
OF ANNUAL GOVERNANCE & ACCOUNTABILITY RETURN (EXEMPT AUTHORITY)
ACCOUNTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2026
Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 Sections 25, 26 and 27
The Accounts and Audit Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/234)
NOTICE
1. Date of announcement
Monday 25th May 2026
2. Each year the smaller authority prepares an Annual Governance and Accountability Return (AGAR). The AGAR has been published with this notice. It will not be reviewed by the appointed auditor, since the smaller authority has certified itself as exempt from the appointed auditor’s review.
Any person interested has the right to inspect and make copies of the AGAR, the accounting records for the financial year to which it 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 2026, these documents will be available on reasonable notice by application to:
Liz Leighfield, Administrative Assistant
clerk@chitternepc.org.uk
commencing on Monday 8th June 2026
and ending on Friday 17th July 2026
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 only subject to review by the appointed auditor if questions or objections raised under the Local Audit and Accountability Act 2014 lead to the involvement of the auditor. The appointed auditor is:
PKF Littlejohn LLP (Ref: SBA Team)
30 Churchill Place
London E14 5RE
5. This announcement is made by Sir Nick Parker, Chair
Further information is available via the link below: