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- Act saved (6.5.1999) by 1998 c. 46 s. 30 Sch. 5 Pt. 2 s. E4(f)
- Act textual by S.I. 2001/2237 art. 2
- s. 12(1) (defn. of "principal council") para. (aa) added (prosp.) by 1994 c. 19 s. 66(6) Sch. 16 para. 77
- s. 12(1) (defns. "local authority""principal council") para. (b) amended (S) by 1994 c. 39 Sch. 13 para. 147
- s. 12(1) (defn. of "principal council") para. (a) repealed in part (prosp.) by 1994 c. 19 s. 66(6)(8) Sch. 16 para. 77 Sch. 18
- s. 74(3)(z) inserted by 2024 c. 13 Sch. 30 para. 7(b)
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- Act saved (6.5.1999) by 1998 c. 46 s. 30 Sch. 5 Pt. 2 s. E4(f)
- Act textual by S.I. 2001/2237 art. 2
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- s. 12(1) (defn. of "principal council") para. (aa) added (prosp.) by 1994 c. 19 s. 66(6) Sch. 16 para. 77
- s. 12(1) (defns. "local authority""principal council") para. (b) amended (S) by 1994 c. 39 Sch. 13 para. 147
- s. 12(1) (defn. of "principal council") para. (a) repealed in part (prosp.) by 1994 c. 19 s. 66(6)(8) Sch. 16 para. 77 Sch. 18
- s. 74(3)(z) inserted by 2024 c. 13 Sch. 30 para. 7(b)
8 Financial structure of the successor company.E+W+S
(1)If the Secretary of State so directs at any time before the successor company ceases to be wholly owned by the Crown, such sum (not exceeding the accumulated realised profits of the BAA) as may be specified in the direction shall be carried by the successor company to a reserve (“the statutory reserve”).
(2)The statutory reserve may only be applied by the successor company in paying up unissued shares of the company to be allotted to members of the company as fully paid bonus shares.
(3)Notwithstanding subsection (2), the statutory reserve shall not count as an undistributable reserve of the successor company for the purposes of [F1section 831(4)(d) of the Companies Act 2006] ; but, for the purpose of determining under that section whether the successor company may make a distribution at any time, any amount for the time being standing to the credit of the statutory reserve shall be treated for the purposes of [F2section 831(4)(c)] as if it were unrealised profits of the company.
(4)For the purposes of any statutory accounts of the successor company, the value of any asset and the amount of any liability of the BAA vesting in the successor company on the appointed day shall be taken to be the value or (as the case may be) the amount assigned to that asset or liability for the purposes of the corresponding statement of accounts prepared by the successor company under this Act for the period from the end of that dealt with in the last annual statement of accounts published by the BAA down to the appointed day.
(5) For the purposes of any statutory accounts of the successor company the amount to be included in respect of any item shall be determined as if anything done by the BAA (whether by way of acquiring, revaluing or disposing of any asset or incurring, revaluing or discharging any liability, or by carrying any amount to any provision or reserve, or otherwise) had been done by the successor company.
Accordingly (but without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provision) the amount to be included from time to time in any reserves of the successor company as representing its accumulated realised profits shall be determined as if any profits realised and retained by the BAA had been realised and retained by the successor company.
(6)References in this section to the statutory accounts of the successor company are references to any accounts prepared by the successor company for the purposes of any provision of [F3the Companies Act 2006] (including group accounts).
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 8(3) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 97(2)(a)(i) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)
F2Words in s. 8(3) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 97(2)(a)(ii) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)
F3Words in s. 8(6) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 97(2)(b) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)
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