(1) The following provisions apply to the appointment as auditor of a company or a partnership constituted under the law of Saint Lucia or under the law of any other country or territory in which a partnership is not a legal person.
(2) The appointment is, unless a contrary intention appears, an appointment of the partnership as such and not of the partners.
(3) Where the partnership ceases, the appointment shall be treated as extending to—
(a) any partnership which succeeds to the practice of that partnership and is eligible for the appointment; and
(b) any person who succeeds to that practice having previously carried it on in partnership and is eligible for the appointment.
(4) For this purpose a partnership shall be regarded as succeeding to the practice of another partnership only if the members of the successor partnership are substantially the same as those of the former partnership; and a partnership or other person shall be regarded as succeeding to the practice of a partnership only if it or he or she succeeds to the whole or substantially the whole of the business of the former partnership.
(5) Where the partnership ceases and no person succeeds to the appointment under subsection (3), the appointment may with the consent of the company be treated as extending to a partnership or other person eligible for the appointment who succeeds to the business of the former partnership or to such part of it as is agreed by the company.