Allocation of excess NCDs: period or periods to which amount to be allocatedU.K.
8(1)Excess NCDs falling to be allocated to another company under paragraph 7 (allocation to other group companies) may be allocated to any accounting period identified by this paragraph as a corresponding accounting period.
If there is more than one such period, excess NCDs must be allocated to the first to the full extent possible before any allocation is made to the second, and so on.
(2)The accounting period of a recipient company that includes the last day of the distribution period is its first corresponding accounting period.
Unless that accounting period is shorter than the distribution period, it is the recipient company’s only corresponding accounting period.
(3)If the first corresponding accounting period is shorter than the distribution period, any subsequent accounting period of the recipient company beginning before the end of the period specified in sub-paragraph (4) is a corresponding accounting period.
(4)The period referred to in sub-paragraph (3) is a period—
(a)of the same length as the distribution period, and
(b)beginning on the same day as the recipient company’s first corresponding accounting period.