Securities and Futures Act 2001 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Books, Customer Assets and Audit
113. Restriction on auditor’s and employee’s right to communicate certain matters
Feedback & supportExcept as may be necessary for the carrying into effect of the provisions of this Act or so far as may be required for the purposes of any legal proceedings, whether civil or criminal, an auditor appointed under section 109 or carrying out any duty imposed under section 115, and any employee of such an auditor, must not disclose any information which may come to his or her knowledge or possession in the course of performing his or her duties as such auditor or employee (as the case may be) to any person other than —
auditor
“auditor” means a public accountant who is registered or deemed to be registered under the Accountants Act 2004 and, in Division 1 of Part 13, when used in relation to an entity not being a company, includes —(a)a person who is duly registered, licensed, approved or otherwise authorised to practise as an auditor (such practice to include the issue of any opinion, report or other document on the audit of any financial statement) —(i)under the laws of the place where the entity is formed or constituted; or(ii)under the laws of the place of his or her practice, if the auditing standards that are or will be applied to the financial statements of the entity are —(A)auditing standards commonly applied in that place; or(B)international auditing standards (by whatever name called); or(b)such other person as the Authority may approve in any particular case to be an auditor for such entity;
the Authority; and
in the case of an employee of such auditor, the auditor.