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Chapter: | 426
 | Title: | OCCUPATIONAL RETIREMENT SCHEMES ORDINANCE | Gazette Number: | |
| Section: | 68 | Heading: | Qualification of auditor | Version Date: | 30/06/1997 |
(1) Any thing required to be done under this Ordinance or any statement, report or other document required to be made or prepared under this Ordinance by an auditor in respect of a Hong Kong domiciled scheme or proposed Hong Kong domiciled scheme shall be done, made or prepared by a Hong Kong accountant.
(2) Any thing required to be done under this Ordinance or any statement, report or other document required to be made or prepared under this Ordinance by an auditor in respect of an offshore scheme or proposed offshore scheme shall be done, made or prepared by-
(a) a Hong Kong accountant; or
(b) a person-
(i) who may lawfully practise as a professional accountant in the country or jurisdiction which is the domicile of the scheme; and
(ii) without prejudice to subparagraph (i), who holds such qualification as the Registrar may accept as being of a standard comparable to that of a Hong Kong accountant.
(3) Any thing required to be done under this Ordinance or any statement, report or other document required to be made or prepared under this Ordinance by an auditor in respect of an occupational retirement scheme shall be done, made or prepared by an auditor who is not-
(a) a partner, director or employee of the administrator of the scheme;
(b) the relevant employer of the scheme;
(c) an associate or employee of the employer; or
(d) a person having a contract of service with an employee referred to in paragraph (a) or (c).
(4) Where a statement, report or other document which purports to be made or prepared by an auditor in respect of an occupational retirement scheme is received by the Registrar, the Registrar may require-
(a) the person by whom the statement, report or other document purports to have been made or prepared;
(b) the administrator of the scheme; or
(c) the relevant employer of the scheme,
to supply to the Registrar a statement in writing, in a form specified by the Registrar, that the person is not a person referred to in subsection (3)(a), (b), (c) or (d).(Enacted 1992)