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Companies Act 1989

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3(1)Of the information required by Part III of Schedule 4 (information to be given in notes to accounts if not given in the accounts themselves) only the information required by the following provisions need be given—

  • paragraph 36 (accounting policies),

  • paragraph 38 (share capital),

  • paragraph 39 (particulars of allotments),

  • paragraph 42 (fixed assets), so far as it relates to those items to which a letter or Roman number is assigned in the balance sheet format adopted,

  • paragraph 48(1) and (4) (particulars of debts),

  • paragraph 58(1) (basis of conversion of foreign currency amounts into sterling),

  • paragraph 58(2) (corresponding amounts for previous financial year), so far as it relates to amounts stated in a note to the company’s accounts by virtue of a requirement of Schedule 4 or under any other provision of this Act.

(2)Of the information required by Schedule 5 to be given in notes to the accounts, the information required by the following provisions need not be given—

  • paragraph 4 (financial years of subsidiary undertakings),

  • paragraph 5 (additional information about subsidiary undertakings),

  • paragraph 6 (shares and debentures of company held by subsidiary undertakings),

  • paragraph 10 (arrangements attracting merger relief).

(3)Of the information required by Schedule 6 to be given in notes to the accounts, the information required by Part I (directors' and chairman’s emoluments, pensions and compensation for loss of office) need not be given.

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