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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Large and Medium-sized Companies and Groups (Accounts and Reports) Regulations 2008 No. 410
4.—(1) If the company (not being the wholly-owned subsidiary of a company incorporated in the United Kingdom) has in the financial year made any contribution to a non-EU political party, the directors’ report for the year must contain—
(a)a statement of the amount of the contribution, or
(b)(if it has made two or more such contributions in the year) a statement of the total amount of the contributions.
(2) If—
(a)at the end of the financial year the company has subsidiaries which have, in that year, made any such contributions as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (1), and
(b)it is not itself the wholly-owned subsidiary of a company incorporated in the United Kingdom,
the directors’ report for the year is not, by virtue of sub-paragraph (1), required to contain any such statement as is there mentioned, but it must instead contain a statement of the total amount of the contributions made in the year by the company and the subsidiaries between them.
(3) In this paragraph, “contribution”, in relation to an organisation, means—
(a)any gift of money to the organisation (whether made directly or indirectly);
(b)any subscription or other fee paid for affiliation to, or membership of, the organisation; or
(c)any money spent (otherwise than by the organisation or a person acting on its behalf) in paying any expenses incurred directly or indirectly by the organisation.
(4) In this paragraph, “non-EU political party” means any political party which carries on, or proposes to carry on, its activities wholly outside the member States.
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