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Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 · Part B · Chapter 15

Section 409 Removal of auditors

(1)
A company may by ordinary resolution remove an auditor before the expiration of his term of office, notwithstanding anything in any agreement between it and him.
(2)
Where a resolution removing an auditor is passed at a general meeting of a company, the company shall within 14 days give notice of that fact in the prescribed form to the Commission and if a company fails to give the notice required by this subsection, the company and each officer of the company are liable to a penalty as the Commission shall specify in its regulations.
(3)
Nothing in this section shall be taken as depriving a person removed under it of compensation or damages payable to him in respect of the termination of his appointment as auditor or of any appointment terminating with that as auditor.
Cite as: Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020, section 409

What this section means

From the guide: Is my company exempt from audit under CAMA 2020?

  • By ordinary resolution before the term ends, with notice to the Commission in 14 days (section 409).

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Source: Companies and Allied Matters Act 2020 (Act No. 3 of 2020), Official Gazette No. 124, Lagos, 10 August 2020. General information, not legal advice.