SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5

Part II Companies Required to Prepare Group Accounts

Other significant holdings of parent company or group

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(1)

F1. . . there shall also be stated—

(a)

the aggregate amount of the capital and reserves of the undertaking as at the end of its relevant financial year, and

(b)

its profit or loss for that year.

(2)

That information need not be given in respect of an undertaking if—

(a)

the undertaking is not required by any provision of this Act to deliver a copy of its balance sheet for its relevant financial year and does not otherwise publish that balance sheet in Great Britain or elsewhere, and

(b)

the company’s holding is less than 50 per cent. of the nominal value of the shares in the undertaking.

(3)

Information otherwise required by this paragraph need not be given if it is not material.

(4)

For the purposes of this paragraph the “relevant financial year” of an undertaking is—

(a)

if its financial year ends with that of the company, that year, and

(b)

if not, its financial year ending last before the end of the company’s financial year.