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4(1)Where a distribution is proposed to be declared during any accounting reference period of a successor company which includes a transfer date or before any accounts are laid or filed in respect of such a period, sections 270 to 276 of the M1Companies Act 1985 (accounts relevant for determining whether a distribution may be made by a company) shall have effect as if—U.K.
(a)references in section 270 to the company’s accounts or to accounts relevant under that section, and
(b)references in section 273 to initial accounts,
included references to such accounts as, on the assumptions stated in sub-paragraph (2), would have been prepared under section 226 of that Act in respect of the relevant year (in this paragraph referred to as “the relevant accounts”).
(2)Those assumptions are—
(a)that the relevant year had been a financial year of the successor company,
(b)that the vesting in accordance with the preparatory scheme had been a vesting of all the property, rights and liabilities transferred to the company in accordance with that scheme and had been effected immediately after the beginning of that year,
(c)that the value of any asset and the amount of any liability of the BBC vested in the successor company in accordance with the preparatory scheme had been the value or (as the case may be) amount determined by or under the scheme or (if there is no such determination) the value or amount assigned to the asset or liability for the purposes of the Account or Accounts prepared by the BBC for the purposes of Article 18(2) of the Charter in respect of their financial year immediately preceding the relevant year,
(d)that any securities of the successor company issued or allotted before the declaration of the distribution had been issued or allotted before the end of the relevant year, and
(e)such other assumptions (if any) as may appear to the directors of the successor company to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of this paragraph.
(3)If an Account or Accounts are prepared by the BBC for the purposes of Article 18(2) of the Charter in respect of the residual part of a financial year, that residual part shall be treated as a financial year of the BBC for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(c).
(4)The relevant accounts shall not be regarded as statutory accounts for the purposes of paragraph 2.
(5)In this paragraph—
“accounting reference period” has the meaning given by section 224 of the Companies Act 1985;
“complete financial year” means a financial year ending with 31st March;
“the relevant year”, in relation to any transfer date, means the last complete financial year ending before that date;
“a transfer date”, in relation to a successor company, means the date of the coming into force of any preparatory scheme in accordance with which property, rights or liabilities are transferred to that company.
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