Public Funding of Represented Political Parties Act, 1997 (Act No. 103 of 1997)5A. |
| (a) | The Commission may appoint an auditor registered and practising as such in terms of the Auditing Profession Act, 2005, to— |
| (i) | verify the auditor's report and audited statement submitted to it in terms of subsection (5); or |
| (ii) | audit the statement referred to in subsection (3) and the books and records of account kept in terms of this section if the accounting officer of a political party fails to have that statement and those books and records of account audited as contemplated in subsection (3). |
| (b) | Subsection (4) applies, with the necessary changes, to an auditor who has performed an audit contemplated in paragraph (a)(ii). |
| (c) | The verification of the auditor's report and audited statement contemplated in paragraph (a)(i) or the auditor's report and audited statement contemplated in paragraph (a)(ii), as the case may be, must be submitted to the Commission by the auditor concerned within one month after the date of his or her appointment by the Commission. |
[Section 5A inserted by General Laws Amendment Act, 2008, by section 2(c) of Notice No. 20, GG31787, dated 9 January 2009]