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(1)A quoted company [F3or unquoted traded company] must give notice of the intention to move, as an ordinary resolution, a resolution approving the relevant directors' remuneration policy—
(a)at the accounts meeting held in the first financial year which begins on or after the day on which the company becomes a quoted company [F4or (as the case may be) an unquoted traded company], and
(b)at an accounts or other general meeting held no later than the end of the period of three financial years beginning with the first financial year after the last accounts or other general meeting in relation to which notice is given under this subsection.
(2)A quoted company [F5or unquoted traded company] must give notice of the intention to move at an accounts meeting, as an ordinary resolution, a resolution approving the relevant directors' remuneration policy if—
(a)a resolution required to be put to the vote under section 439 was not passed at the last accounts meeting of the company, and
(b)no notice under this section was given in relation to that meeting or any other general meeting held before the next accounts meeting.
[F6(2A)A quoted company or unquoted traded company must give notice of the intention to move at an accounts or other general meeting, as an ordinary resolution, a resolution approving the relevant directors’ remuneration policy if—
(a)a resolution required to be put to the vote under subsection (1) or (2) or this subsection was not passed at the last accounts or other general meeting of the company, and
(b)no notice under this section was given in relation to any other general meeting held before the next accounts meeting.]
(3)Subsection (2) does not apply in relation to a quoted company [F7or unquoted traded company] before the first meeting in relation to which it gives notice under subsection (1).
(4)A notice given under subsection (2) [F8or (2A)] is to be treated as given under subsection (1) for the purpose of determining the period within which the next notice under subsection (1) must be given.
(5)Notice of the intention to move a resolution to which this section applies must be given, prior to the meeting in question, to the members of the company entitled to be sent notice of the meeting.
(6) Subsections (2) to (4) of section 439 apply for the purposes of a resolution to which this section applies as they apply for the purposes of a resolution to which section 439 applies, with the modification that, for the purposes of a resolution relating to a general meeting other than an accounts meeting, subsection (3) applies as if for “accounts meeting” there were substituted “ general meeting ” .
(7)For the purposes of this section, the relevant directors' remuneration policy is—
(a)in a case where notice is given in relation to an accounts meeting, the remuneration policy contained in the directors' remuneration report in respect of which a resolution under section 439 is required to be put to the vote at that accounts meeting;
(b)in a case where notice is given in relation to a general meeting other than an accounts meeting—
(i)the remuneration policy contained in the directors' remuneration report in respect of which such a resolution was required to be put to the vote at the last accounts meeting to be held before that other general meeting, or
(ii)where that policy has been revised in accordance with section 422A, the policy as so revised.
(8)In this section—
(a) “ accounts meeting ” means a general meeting of the company before which the company's annual accounts for a financial year are to be laid;
(b)“directors' remuneration policy” means the policy of the company with respect to the matters mentioned in section 421(2A);]
[F9(c)“unquoted traded company” means a traded company (as defined by section 360C) that is not a quoted company.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 439A inserted (1.10.2013) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), ss. 79(4), 103(3); S.I. 2013/2227, art. 2(h)
F2Words in s. 439A heading inserted (10.6.2019) by The Companies (Directors Remuneration Policy and Directors Remuneration Report) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/970), regs. 1, 20(a)
F3Words in s. 439A(1) inserted (10.6.2019) by The Companies (Directors Remuneration Policy and Directors Remuneration Report) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/970), regs. 1, 20(b)(i)
F4Words in s. 439A(1)(a) inserted (10.6.2019) by The Companies (Directors Remuneration Policy and Directors Remuneration Report) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/970), regs. 1, 20(b)(ii) (with reg. 2)
F5Words in s. 439A(2) inserted (10.6.2019) by The Companies (Directors Remuneration Policy and Directors Remuneration Report) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/970), regs. 1, 20(c)
F6S. 439A(2A) inserted (10.6.2019) by The Companies (Directors Remuneration Policy and Directors Remuneration Report) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/970), regs. 1, 20(d)
F7Words in s. 439A(3) inserted (10.6.2019) by The Companies (Directors Remuneration Policy and Directors Remuneration Report) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/970), regs. 1, 20(c)
F8Words in s. 439A(4) inserted (10.6.2019) by The Companies (Directors Remuneration Policy and Directors Remuneration Report) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/970), regs. 1, 20(e)
F9S. 439A(8)(c) inserted (10.6.2019) by The Companies (Directors Remuneration Policy and Directors Remuneration Report) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/970), regs. 1, 20(f)
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