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(1)[F2Subject to [F3subsections (1A) to (1C)],]A company is not entitled to the exemption conferred by subsection (1) or (2) of section 249A in respect of a financial year if at any time within that year—
(a)it was a public company,
(b)it was a banking or insurance company
(c)it was enrolled in the list maintained by the Insurance Brokers Registration Council under section 4 of the Insurance Brokers (Registration) Act 1977,
(d)it was an authorised person or an appointed representative under the Financial Services Act 1986,
(e)it was a special register body as defined in section 117(1) of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992 or an employers’ association as defined in section 122 of that Act, or
(f)it was a parent company or a subsidiary undertaking.
[F4(1A)A company which, apart from this subsection, would fall within subsection (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 section 250) throughout that period.]
[F5(1B)A company which, apart from this subsection, would fall within subsection (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 subsection (1C).
(1C)The conditions referred to in subsection (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 section 249 and is not, and was not at any time within that year, an ineligible group within the meaning of section 248(2),
(b)that the group’s aggregate turnover in that year (calculated in accordance with section 249) is not more than £350,000 net (or £420,000 gross), and
(c)that the group’s aggregate balance sheet total for that year (calculated in accordance with section 249) is not more than £1.4 million net (or £1.68 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 subsection (2), the company is not entitled to the exemption conferred by subsection (1) or (2) of section 249A in respect of the financial year to which the notice relates
(4)A company is not entitled to the exemption conferred by subsection (1) or (2) of section 249A unless its balance sheet contains a statement by the directors—
(a)[F6to the effect]that for the year in question the company was entitled to exemption under subsection (1) or (2) (as the case may be) of section 249A,
(b)[F6to the effect]that no notice has been deposited under subsection (2) of this section in relation to its accounts for the financial year, and
(c)[F6to the effect]that the directors acknowledge their responsibilities for—
(i)ensuring that the company keeps accounting records which comply with section 221, 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 section 226, and which otherwise comply with the requirements of this Act relating to accounts, so far as applicable to the company.
(5)The statement required by subsection (4) shall appear in the balance sheet [F7above the signature required by section 233] required by section 233 or, as the case may be, above any statement required by section 246(1A) or by paragraph 23 of Schedule 8.
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 249A-249E and preceding cross-heading inserted (11.8.1994) by S.I. 1994/1935, reg. 2
F2Words in s. 249B(1) inserted (2.2.1996) by S.I. 1996/189, reg. 10(2)
F3Words in s. 249B(1) substituted (15.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/936, reg. 3(2)
F4S. 249B(1A) inserted (2.2.1996) by S.I. 1996/189, reg. 10(3)
F5S. 249B(1C)(1D) inserted (15.4.1997) by S.I. 1997/936, reg. 3(3)
F6Words in s. 249B(4)(a)-(c) inserted (2.2.1996) by S.I. 1996/189, reg. 10(4)
F7Words in s. 249B(5) substituted (2.2.1996) by S.I. 1996/189, reg. 10(5)
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