The Companies Act 1985 (Accounts of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Publication of Accounts in ECUs) Regulations 1992

Transitional provisions

7.—(1) These Regulations shall apply to annual accounts in respect of financial years ending on or after the date of coming into force of these Regulations, and to directors' and auditors' reports on those accounts.

(2) In determining under section 247 or 249 of the 1985 Act whether a company or group qualifies as small or medium-sized in relation to financial years subsequent to its first financia l year which end on or after the date of coming into force of these Regulations:

(a) the company or group shall be treated as having qualified as small or medium-sized (as the case may be) in each previous financial year ending on or after 9th November 1990 in which it would have so qualified under section 247(3) or 249(3) as amended by these Regulations; and

(b) the company or group shall be treated as having qualified as small or medium-sized in any such financial year if they would have been so entitled had the company or group had the qualification it is treated as having had under sub-paragraph (a) above.