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Changes over time for: Section 223


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Version Superseded: 06/04/2008
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Point in time view as at 27/06/1991. This version of this provision has been superseded.

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There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Companies Act 1985, Section 223.

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223 A company’s financial year.E+W+S
(1)A company’s “financial year” is determined as follows.
(2)Its first financial year begins with the first day of its first accounting reference period and ends with the last day of that period or such other date, not more than seven days before or after the end of that period, as the directors may determine.
(3)Subsequent financial years begin with the day immediately following the end of the company’s previous financial year and end with the last day of its next accounting reference period or such other date, not more than seven days before or after the end of that period, as the directors may determine.
(4)In relation to an undertaking which is not a company, references in this Act to its financial year are to any period in respect of which a profit and loss account of the undertaking is required to be made up (by its constitution or by the law under which it is established), whether that period is a year or not.
(5)The directors of a parent company shall secure that, except where in their opinion there are good reasons against it, the financial year of each of its subsidiary undertakings coincides with the company’s own financial year.
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