293. The auditor appointed under this division must be an accountant and a member in good standing of an institute or association of accountants incorporated by the legislature of a province of Canada, or under its authority, or a firm of accountants in which one or more of the officers or employees are members of that institute or association.
A federation of mutual insurance associations shall cause the audit of the books and accounts of its members to be carried out only by persons who are members of a professional corporation of accountants mentioned in the Professional Code (chapter C-26).
In no case, however, may the auditor be a director, a mandatary, an employee or a member of the mutual insurance association of which he is performing the audit nor a director or a mandatary of the federation or guarantee fund corporation of which the mutual insurance association of which he is performing the audit is a member.
1974, c. 70, s. 293; 1985, c. 17, s. 39.