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The Company Accounts (Disclosure of Directors' Emoluments) Regulations 1997

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Compensation to directors for loss of office

5.—(1) In sub-paragraph (2)(b) of paragraph 8 of Schedule 6 (compensation to directors for loss of office), the words from “and shall distinguish” to the end shall be omitted.

(2) For sub-paragraph (4) of that paragraph there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraphs—

(4) In this paragraph, references to compensation for loss of office include the following, namely—

(a)compensation in consideration for, or in connection with, a person’s retirement from office; and

(b)where such a retirement is occasioned by a breach of the person’s contract with the company or with a subsidiary undertaking of the company—

(i)payments made by way of damages for the breach; or

(ii)payments made by way of settlement or compromise of any claim in respect of the breach.

(5) Sub-paragraph (6)(a) of paragraph 1 applies for the purposes of this paragraph as it applies for the purposes of that paragraph.

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