Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

420 Parent and subsidiary undertaking. U.K.

(1) In this Act, except in relation to an incorporated friendly society, “parent undertaking” and “subsidiary undertaking” have the same meaning as in [F1 the Companies Acts (see section 1162 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Companies Act 2006)].

(2) But—

(a) “parent undertaking” also includes an individual who would be a parent undertaking for the purposes of those provisions if he were taken to be an undertaking (and “subsidiary undertaking” is to be read accordingly);

(b) “subsidiary undertaking” also includes, in relation to a body incorporated in or formed under the law of an EEA State other than the United Kingdom, an undertaking which is a subsidiary undertaking within the meaning of any rule of law in force in that State for purposes connected with implementation of the [F2 Directive 2013/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings, amending Directive 2006/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Directives 78/660/EEC and 83/349/EEC] (and “parent undertaking” is to be read accordingly).

(3) In this Act “subsidiary undertaking”, in relation to an incorporated friendly society, means a body corporate of which the society has control within the meaning of section 13(9)(a) or (aa) of the M1 Friendly Societies Act 1992 (and “parent undertaking” is to be read accordingly).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 420(1) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), arts. 2(2), 3(1), Sch. 1 para. 212(1) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)

F2 Words in s. 420(2)(b) substituted (23.3.2019) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/632), regs. 1(2)(c), 87(b)

Marginal Citations

M1 1992 c. 40.