Airports Act 1986

Final statements of accounts etc. E+W+S

7 (1) The successor company shall prepare a statement of the BAA’s accounts for the period from the end of that dealt with in the last annual statement of accounts published by the BAA down to the appointed day (referred to in this paragraph and paragraph 8 as “the final period”). E+W+S

(2) The statement shall be in such form and contain such particulars, compiled in such a manner, as the Secretary of State may, with the approval of the Treasury, direct.

(3) The successor company shall arrange for the accounts of the BAA for the final period to be audited by auditors appointed by the Secretary of State; and a person [F1 shall not be so appointed unless he is eligible for appointment as a company auditor under section 25 of the Companies Act 1989.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 5 para. 7 substituted (01.10.1991) by S.I. 1991/1997, reg. 2,Sch. para. 63(3) (with reg. 4)

8 (1) The successor company shall make to the Secretary of State a report on the performance by the BAA of its functions during the final period. E+W+S

(2) The report shall—

(a) set out any direction given to the BAA under section 2(7) of the 1975 Act during the final period, unless the Secretary of State has notified the successor company that in his opinion it is against the national interest to do so; and

(b) include such information relating to the activities of the BAA and its financial position during that period as the Secretary of State may direct.

(3) There shall be attached to the report a copy of the statement of accounts prepared in respect of the final period under paragraph 7 and a copy of any report made on the statement by the auditors.

(4) The Secretary of State shall lay a copy of the report, and of the statements attached to it, before each House of Parliament.

9 (1) Where it is proposed to declare a distribution during the accounting reference period of the successor company which includes the appointed day, or before any accounts are laid or delivered to the registrar of companies in respect of that period, sections 270 to 276 of the M1 Companies Act 1985 (relevant accounts) shall have effect as if— E+W+S

(a) such accounts as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) were accounts relevant under section 270, and

(b) references in section 273 to initial accounts included references to any such accounts.

(2) The accounts referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) and (b) are such accounts as, on the assumptions stated in sub-paragraph (3), would have been prepared under section 227 of the Companies Act 1985 in respect of the relevant year.

(3) Those assumptions are—

(a) that the relevant year had been a financial year of the successor company;

(b) that the vesting effected by section 2 of this Act had been a vesting of all the property, rights and liabilities to which the BAA was entitled or subject immediate before the beginning of the relevant year and had been effected immediately after the beginning of that year;

(c) that the value of any asset and the amount of any liability of the BAA vested in the successor company by virtue of that section had been the value or (as the case may be) the amount assigned to that asset or lability for the purposes of the statement of accounts prepared by the BAA in respect of its accounting year immediately preceding the relevant year;

(d) that any securities of the successor company issued or allotted before the declaration of the distribution had been issued or allotted before the end of the relevant year; and

(e) such other assumptions (if any) as may appear to the directors of the successor company to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of this paragraph.

(4) for the purposes of such accounts as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) the amount to be included in respect of any item shall be determined as if anything done by the BAA (whether by way of acquiring, revaluing or disposing of any asset or incurring, revaluing or discharging any liability, or by carrying any amount to any provision or reserve, or otherwise) had been done by the successor company.

Accordingly (but without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provision) the amount to be included in any reserves of the successor company as representing its accumulated realised profits shall be determined as if any profits realised and retained by the BAA had been realised and retained by the successor company.

(5) Any such accounts shall not be regarded as statutory accounts for the purposes of section 8 of this Act.

(6) In this paragraph “the relevant year” means the accounting year of the BAA ending with the 31st March immediately preceding the appointed day.

Marginal Citations

M1 1985 c. 6.