SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 7 Special Provisions for Banking and Insurance Companies and Groups

Part II [Part II of Schedule 9 to the Companies Act 1985]Accounts of Banking or Insurance Group

Undertakings to be included in consolidation

1

The following descriptions of undertaking shall not be excluded from consolidation under section 229(4) (exclusion of undertakings whose activities are different from those of the undertakings consolidated)—

(a)

in the case of a banking group, an undertaking (other than a credit institution) whose activities are a direct extension of or ancillary to banking business;

(b)

in the case of an insurance group, an undertaking (other than one carrying on insurance business) whose activities are a direct extension of or ancillary to insurance business.

For the purposes of paragraph (a) “banking” means the carrying on of a deposit-taking business within the meaning of the M1Banking Act 1987.