Finance (No. 2) Act 2023

233 Treatment of protected cell companies U.K.

(1) For the purposes of this Part—

(a) a protected cell company is not to be regarded as an entity, and

(b) each part of a protected cell company is to be treated as an entity distinct from the others.

(2) Accordingly—

(a) the fact an entity is a part of a protected cell company is irrelevant to determining whether it is a member of a consolidated group, and

(b) the accounts of the protected cell company are not to be regarded as consolidated financial statements.

(3) In this Part—

• “protected cell company” means a protected cell company incorporated under Part 4 of the Risk Transformation Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1212);

• a “part” of a protected cell company means its core or a cell of the company;

• “core” and “cell” have the meaning they have in those regulations.