The Companies (Strategic Report and Directors’ Report) (Amendment) Regulations 2023

Review

8.—(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a) carry out a review of those sections which are inserted into the Companies Act 2006 by these Regulations, and

(b) publish a report setting out the conclusions of the review.

(2) The first report must be published before 1st January 2030.

(3) Subsequent reports must be published at intervals not exceeding 5 years.

(4) Section 30(4) of the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015(1) (“the 2015 Act”) requires that a report published under this regulation must, in particular—

(a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory provision referred to in paragraph (1)(a);

(b) assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved;

(c) assess whether those objectives remain appropriate; and

(d) if those objectives remain appropriate, assess the extent to which they could be achieved in another way which involves less onerous regulatory provision.

(5) In this regulation, “regulatory provision” has the same meaning as in sections 28 to 32 of the 2015 Act (see section 32 of that Act).

(1)

2015 c. 26. Section 30 has been amended but not in a way which is relevant to these Regulations.