Part IX A Company’s Management; Directors and Secretaries; their Qualifications, Duties and Responsibilities
Other provisions about directors and officers
309CDisclosure of qualifying third party indemnity provisions
1
Subsections (2) and (3) impose disclosure requirements in relation to a directors' report under section 234 in respect of a financial year.
2
If —
a
at the time when the report is approved under section 234A, any qualifying third party indemnity provision (whether made by the company or otherwise) is in force for the benefit of one or more directors of the company, or
b
at any time during the financial year, any such provision was in force for the benefit of one or more persons who were then directors of the company,
the report must state that any such provision is or (as the case may be) was so in force.
3
If the company has made a qualifying third party indemnity provision and—
a
at the time when the report is approved under section 234A, any qualifying third party indemnity provision made by the company is in force for the benefit of one or more directors of an associated company, or
b
at any time during the financial year, any such provision was in force for the benefit of one or more persons who were then directors of an associated company,
the report must state that any such provision is or (as the case may be) was so in force.
4
Subsection (5) applies where a company has made a qualifying third party indemnity provision for the benefit of a director of the company or of an associated company.
5
Section 318 shall apply to—
a
the company, and
b
if the director is a director of an associated company, the associated company,
as if a copy of the provision, or (if it is not in writing) a memorandum setting out its terms, were included in the list of documents in section 318(1).
6
In this section—
“associated company” and “provision” have the same meaning as in section 309A; and
“qualifying third party indemnity provision” has the meaning given by section 309B(1).