Section 409 CAMA 2020

Section 409 Companies and Allied Matters Act is about Removal of auditors. It is under Chapter 15 (Audit) of the Act.

(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.