{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aircraft-and-shipbuilding-industries-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aircraft-and-shipbuilding-industries-northern-ireland-order-1979/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1979/294",
  "legislation_title": "Aircraft and Shipbuilding Industries (Northern Ireland) Order 1979",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/aircraft-and-shipbuilding-industries-northern-ireland-order-1979",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Accounts and reports of principal companies to be laid before Assembly",
  "text": "(1) The Department shall, as soon as practicable in the case of each principal company, lay before the Assembly a copy of the documents mentioned in paragraph (2) which are—\n(a) if the company is a private company, sent to members in accordance with section 423 of the Companies Act 2006, or\n(b) if the company is a public company, laid before the company in general meeting in accordance with section 437 of that Act.\n(2) The documents referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) the profit and loss account;\n(b) the group accounts;\n(c) the balance sheet;\n(d) the auditors' report;\n(e) the directors' report;\nand expressions used in this paragraph have the same meaning as in the Companies Act 2006.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 12(1) substituted (1.10.2007) by Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 3, Consequential Amendments, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2194), arts. 1(3)(a), 10(1), Sch. 4 para. 34 (with saving in art. 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 12(1)(a) substituted (6.4.2008) by Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), arts. 2(2), 3(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 47(2)(a) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 12(1)(b) substituted (6.4.2008) by Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), arts. 2(2), 3(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 47(2)(b) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 12(2) substituted (6.4.2008) by Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), arts. 2(2), 3(1)(b), Sch. 1 para. 47(3) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1979/294/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:54.436584+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}