Paragraph 3 Financial information about subsidiary undertakings

(1)

There shall be disclosed with respect to each subsidiary undertaking—

(a)

the aggregate amount of its capital and reserves as at the end of its relevant financial year, and

(b)

its profit or loss for that year.

(2)

That information need not be given if—

(a)

the subsidiary undertaking is not required by any provision of the Companies Act 1985^f1 or the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986^f2 to deliver a copy of its balance sheet for its relevant financial year and does not otherwise publish that balance sheet in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, and

(b)

the society’s holding is less than 50 per cent of the nominal value of the shares in the undertaking.

(3)

Information otherwise required by this paragraph need not be given if it is not material for the purpose of giving a true and fair view for the society of the matters set out in subsections (2), (3) and (4) of section 73 of the Act.

(4)

For the purposes of this paragraph the “relevant financial year” of a subsidiary undertaking is—

(a)

if its financial year ends with that of the society, that year, and

(b)

if not, its financial year ending last before the end of the society’s financial year.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1985 c. 6.
f2: SI 1986/1032 (N.I.6). This Order was amended by The Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (SI 1990/593 N.I.5)).