Effect of exemptionsF4N.I.
257E .F1—(1) Where the directors of a company have taken advantage of the exemption conferred by Article 257A(1)[F2 or 257AA(1)]
(a)Articles 246 and 247 (right to receive or demand copies of accounts and reports) shall have effect with the omission of references to the auditors' report;
(b)no copy of an auditors' report need be delivered to the registrar or laid before the company in general meeting;
(c)paragraphs (3) to (5) of Article 279 (accounts by reference to which distribution to be justified) shall not apply.
[F2(1A) Where the directors of a company have taken advantage of the exemption conferred by Article 257AA, then for the purposes of that Article the company shall be treated as a company entitled to prepare accounts in accordance with Article 254 even though it is a member of an ineligible group.]
(2) Where the directors of a company have taken advantage of the exemption conferred by Article 257A(2)—
(a)paragraphs (2) to (4) of Article 244 (which require copies of the auditors' report to state the names of the auditors) shall have effect with the substitution for references to the auditors and the auditors' report of references to the reporting accountant and the report made for the purposes of Article 257A(2) respectively;
(b)Articles 246 and 247 (right to receive or demand copies of accounts and reports), Article 249 (accounts and reports to be laid before company in general meeting) and Article 250 (accounts and reports to be delivered to the registrar) shall have effect with the substitution for references to the auditors' report of references to the report made for the purposes of Article 257A(2);
(c)paragraphs (3) to (5) of Article 279 (accounts by reference to which distribution to be justified) shall not apply;
(d)F3Article 397A(1) and (2) (rights to information) shall have effect with the substitution for references toF3 the auditors of references to the reporting accountant.
F4Order repealed (prosp.) by Companies Act 2006 (c. 46), ss. 1284(2), 1295, 1300(2), Sch. 16 and the repeal being partly in force, as to which see individual Articles (with savings (with adaptations) by Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 6, Saving and Commencement Nos. 3 and 5 (Amendment)) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/674), arts. 2(3), {4}, Sch. 2) and subject to amendments (6.4.2008) by Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), arts. 2(2), 3(1)(b)(2), Sch. 1 paras. 135, 147, 148 {Sch. 2 Note 1} (with arts. 6, 11, 12) and subject to amendments (6.4.2008) by S.R. 2008/133, {regs. 2, 3}