Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185:section:12:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00185
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 12 (pt 1/2)
Character Range: 1257929–1260891

12             a person who:                                                                                                                                                                                          1 and 2
               (a) is a former professional employee of the audit company; and
               (b) does not satisfy the independence test in subsection (11)

Maximum hours test
 (10) A non‑audit services provider satisfies the maximum hours test in this subsection if:
 (a) the number of hours for which the person provides services (other than services related to the conduct of an audit) to the audited body on behalf of the auditor during the period to which the audit relates does not exceed 10 hours; and
 (b) the number of hours for which the person provided services (other than services related to the conduct of an audit) to the audited body on behalf of the auditor during the 12 months immediately before the beginning of the period to which the audit relates does not exceed 10 hours.
In a prosecution for an offence based on subsection (1), (2), (5) or (6), the prosecution must prove that the non‑audit services provider did not satisfy the maximum hours test in this subsection.
 (10A) Paragraphs (10)(a) and (b) do not apply if:
 (a) the audited body is a registrable superannuation entity; and
 (b) the services are required or permitted to be provided under the prudential standards (within the meaning of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993).

Independence test
 (11) A person satisfies the independence test in this subsection in relation to an audit company if the person:
 (a) does not influence the operations or financial policies of the accounting and audit practice conducted by the audit company; and
 (b) does not participate, or appear to participate, in the business or professional activities of the accounting and audit practice conducted by the audit company; and
 (c) does not have any rights against the audit company in relation to the accounting and audit practice conducted by the audit company in relation to the termination of the person's former position as an officer of the audit company; and
 (d) has no financial arrangements with the audit company in relation to the accounting and audit practice conducted by the audit company, other than:
 (i) an arrangement providing for regular payments of a fixed pre‑determined dollar amount which is not dependent, directly or indirectly, on the revenues, profits or earnings of the audit company; or
 (ii) an arrangement providing for regular payments of a dollar amount where the method of calculating the dollar amount is fixed and is not dependent, directly or indirectly, on the revenues, profits or earnings of the audit company; and
 (e) without limiting paragraph (d), has no financial arrangement with the audit company to receive a commission or similar payment in relation to business generated by the person for the accounting