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257B .F1—(1) [F2Subject to[F3 paragraphs (1A) to (1C)],] a company is not entitled to the exemption conferred by paragraph (1) or (2) of Article 257A in respect of a financial year if at any time within that year—
(a)it was a public company,
[F4(b)it was an authorised insurance company, a banking company, an e-money issuer, an ISD investment firm or a UCITS management company,]
[F5(bb)it carried on an insurance market activity,]
Sub‐para. (c) rep. by SI 2001/1283
(d)F6. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(e)it was an employers' association as defined in Article 4 of the Industrial Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 1992,
(f)it was a parent company or a subsidiary undertaking.
[F2(1A) A company which, apart from this paragraph, would fall within paragraph (1)(f) by virtue of its being a subsidiary undertaking for any period within a financial year shall not be treated as so falling if it is dormant (within the meaning of[F7 Article 257AA]) throughout that period.]
[F3(1B) A company which, apart from this paragraph, would fall within paragraph (1)(f) by virtue of its being a parent company or a subsidiary undertaking for any period within a financial year, shall not be treated as so falling if throughout that period it was a member of a group meeting the conditions set out in paragraph (1C).
(1C) The conditions referred to in paragraph (1B) are—
(a)that the group qualifies as a small group, in relation to the financial year within which the period falls, for the purposes of Article 257[F7 (or if all bodies corporate in such group were companies, would so qualify)] and is not, and was not at any time within that year, an ineligible group within the meaning of Article 256(2).
(b)that the group's aggregate turnover in that year (calculated in accordance with Article 257) is[F7, where the company referred to in paragraph (1B) is a charity,] not more than £350,000 net (or £420,000 gross)[F7 or,where the company so referred to is not a charity,[F8 not more than £5.6 million net (or £6.72 million gross)]], and
(c)that the group's aggregate balance sheet total for that year (calculated in accordance with Article 257) is[F8 not more than £2.8 million net (or £3.36 million gross)].]
(2) Any member or members holding not less in the aggregate than 10 per cent in nominal value of the company's issued share capital or any class of it or, if the company does not have a share capital, not less than 10 per cent in number of the members of the company, may, by notice in writing deposited at the registered office of the company during a financial year but not later than one month before the end of that year, require the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for that year.
(3) Where a notice has been deposited under paragraph (2), the company is not entitled to the exemption conferred by paragraph (1) or (2) of Article 257A[F7 or by paragraph (1) of Article 257AA] in respect of the financial year to which the notice relates.
(4) A company is not entitled to the exemption conferred by paragraph (1) or (2) of Article 257A[F7 or by paragraph (1) of Article 257AA] unless its balance sheet contains a statement by the directors—
(a)[F2to the effect] that for the year in question the company was entitled to exemption under paragraph (1) or (2)F7. . . of Article 257A[F7 or paragraph (1) of Article 257AA],
[F7(b)to the effect that members have not required the company to obtain an audit of its accounts for the year in question in accordance with paragraph (2), and]
(c)[F2to the effect] that the directors acknowledge their responsibilities for—
(i)ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with Article 229, and
(ii)preparing accounts which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the company as at the end of the financial year and of its profit or loss for the financial year in accordance with the requirements of Article 234, and which otherwise comply with the requirements of this Order relating to accounts, so far as applicable to the company.
(5) The statement required by paragraph (4) shall appear in the balance sheet[F2 above the signature required by Article 241].
F1mod. SR 1994/133
F2SR 1997/314
F3SR 1997/500
F4Art. 257B(1)(b) substituted (1.12.2006) by Companies (1986 Order) (Small Companies' Accounts and Audit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/438), reg. 5(2)
F5SI 2001/3649
F6Art. 257B(1)(d) omitted (1.12.2006) by virtue of Companies (1986 Order) (Small Companies' Accounts and Audit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (S.R. 2006/438), reg. 5(3)
F7SR 2001/153
F8SR 2004/190
F9Order repealed (prosp.) by Companies Act 2006 (c. 46), ss. 1284(2), 1295, 1300(2), Sch. 16 and the repeal being partly in force, as to which see individual Articles (with savings (with adaptations) by Companies Act 2006 (Commencement No. 6, Saving and Commencement Nos. 3 and 5 (Amendment)) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/674), arts. 2(3), {4}, Sch. 2) and subject to amendments (6.4.2008) by Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), arts. 2(2), 3(1)(b)(2), Sch. 1 paras. 135, 147, 148 {Sch. 2 Note 1} (with arts. 6, 11, 12) and subject to amendments (6.4.2008) by S.R. 2008/133, {regs. 2, 3}
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