Companies (Audit and Auditors) Second Amendment Rules, 2021- MCA has earlier mandated that Auditor has to report in his Audit report starting from 01.04.2021 that if the Company is maintaining its books of account in a Accounting Software which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility or not. This report is now made applicable from 01.04.20222 instead of earlier 01.04.2021.
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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS
Notification
New Delhi, the 1st April, 2021
G.S.R. 248 (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 139, 143, 147 and 148 read with sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 469 of the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, namely:—
1. (1) These rules may be called the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Second Amendment Rules, 2021.
(2) They shall come into force with effect from the 1st day of April, 2021.
2. In the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, in rule 11, in clause (g), for the words “Whether the company”, the words, figures and letters “Whether the company, in respect of financial years commencing on or after the 1st April, 2022,” shall be substituted.
[F. No.1/33/2013.CL-V (Part)]
K.V R. Murty,
Joint Secretary to the Government of India
Note: The principal rules were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 246(E), dated the 31st March, 2014 and were last amended vide G.S.R. 206(E) dated the 24th March, 2021.
