Regulation 8 Annual business statement

(1)

Each annual business statement of a society prepared under section 74 of the Act (duty of directors to prepare annual business statement) shall, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, contain the material specified in Schedule 7 below.

(2)

Nothing in this Regulation—

(a)

requires the setting out of the material specified in Schedule 7 below in any particular manner, or

(b)

prohibits the inclusion, for the purpose of the giving in the annual business statement of a true representation of the matters to which that material relates, of material additional to that required to be included by this Regulation.

(3)

Any material required or permitted by this Regulation to be contained in the annual business statement may be included instead in the notes to the annual accounts or the directors' report and, where any such material is so included, the annual business statement shall specify where in those notes or (as the case may be) that report that material is to be found.

(4)

The material required to be contained in the annual business statement by virtue of paragraph 3 of Schedule 7 below shall not be the subject of report by auditors under section 78 of the Act (auditors' report).