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3(1)Where statutory accounts of a successor company prepared as at any time would show the company as having net assets in excess of the aggregate of—U.K.
(a)its called-up share capital, and
(b)the amount, apart from any property, rights and liabilities transferred to it in accordance with any preparatory scheme, of its undistributable reserves,
then, for the purposes of [F1section 830 of the Companies Act 2006] and of the preparation as at that time of any statutory accounts of the company, that excess shall be treated, except so far as the Secretary of State may otherwise direct, as representing an excess of the company’s accumulated realised profits over its accumulated realised losses.
(2)For the purposes of [F2section 831 of the Companies Act 2006] so much of any excess of a company’s net assets as falls, in accordance with a direction under this paragraph, to be treated otherwise than as representing an excess of the company’s accumulated realised profits over its accumulated realised losses shall be treated (subject to any modification of that direction by a subsequent direction under this paragraph) as comprised in the company’s undistributable reserves.
(3)A direction under this paragraph may provide, in relation to any amount to which it applies, that, on the realisation (whether before or after the company in question ceases to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC) of such profits and losses as may be specified or described in the direction, so much of that amount as may be determined in accordance with the direction is to cease to be treated as mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) and is to fall to be treated as comprised in the company’s accumulated realised profits.
(4)The Secretary of State shall not give a direction under this paragraph in relation to a successor company at any time after the company has ceased to be a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC.
(5)The consent of the Treasury shall be required for the giving of a direction under this paragraph.
(6)In this paragraph—
“[F3Companies Act 2006] ;
” has the same meaning as in the“net assets” has the meaning given by subsection (2) of [F4section 831 of the Companies Act 2006] ;
“undistributable reserves” has the meaning given by [F5subsection (4) of that section] ;
and references in this paragraph, in relation to a company, to statutory accounts are references to accounts of that company prepared in respect of any period in accordance with the requirements of that Act, or with those requirements applied with such modifications as are necessary where that period is not an accounting reference period.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 6 para. 3(1) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 203(3) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)
F2Words in Sch. 6 para. 3(2) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 203(4) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)
F3Words in Sch. 6 para. 3(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. 203(5)(a) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)
F4Words in Sch. 6 para. 3(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. 203(5)(b) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)
F5Words in Sch. 6 para. 3(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. 203(5)(c) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)
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