(1)Friendly Societies Act individual accounts must comprise—
(a)a balance sheet as at the last day of the financial year, and
(b)an income and expenditure account.
(2)The balance sheet must give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the society or branch as at the end of the financial year; and the income and expenditure account must give a true and fair view of the income and expenditure of the society or branch for the financial year.
(3)Friendly Societies Act individual accounts must comply with the requirements of regulations made under section 69C as to the form and content of the balance sheet and income and expenditure account and additional information to be provided by way of notes to the accounts or otherwise.
(4)Where compliance with the provisions of those regulations, and the other provisions of this Act as to the matters to be included in a society’s or branch’s individual accounts or in notes to those accounts, would not be sufficient to give a true and fair view, the necessary additional information must be given in the accounts or in a note to them.
(5)If in special circumstances compliance with any of those provisions is inconsistent with the requirement to give a true and fair view, the committee of management must depart from that provision to the extent necessary to give a true and fair view.
(6)Particulars of any such departure, the reasons for it and its effect must be given in a note to the accounts.
(7)The Treasury may by regulations –
(a)add to the classes of documents to be comprised in a society’s or branch’s Friendly Societies Act individual accounts under subsection (1);
(b)make provision as to the matters to be included in any document so added;
(c)modify the requirements of this Part as to the matters to be stated in any document comprised in the society’s or branch’s Friendly Societies Act individual accounts;
(d)reduce the classes of documents to be comprised in a society’s or branch’s Friendly Societies Act individual accounts.
(8)Regulations under subsection (7) –
(a)may make different provision for different cases, and
(b)may include incidental and supplementary provisions.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 69A-69I substituted for ss. 69, 70 (with effect in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Friendly Societies Act 1992 (International Accounting Standards and Other Accounting Amendments) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2211), arts. 1(2), 2 (with art. 8)