The Building Societies (Accounts and Related Provisions) Regulations 1998

Compensation to directors for loss of office

7.—(1) There shall be shown the amount of any compensation in respect of loss of office to each director or past director by name, together with the aggregate amount of any such compensation.

(2) There shall be shown the aggregate amount of any compensation referred to in sub-paragraph (1) in respect of the preceding financial year.

(3) The amounts referred to in sub-paragraph (1) include compensation received or receivable by a director or past director for—

(a) loss of office as director of the society, or

(b) loss, while director of the society or on or in connection with his ceasing to be a director of it, of—

(i) any other office in connection with the management of the society’s affairs, or

(ii) any office as director or otherwise in connection with the management of the affairs of any connected undertaking of the society.

(4) References in this paragraph—

(a) to compensation include benefits otherwise taken in cash; and

(b) to the amount of compensation are to the estimated money value of the benefit.

(5) The nature of any such compensation shall be disclosed.

(6) In this paragraph, references to compensation for loss of office include the following, namely—

(a) compensation in consideration for, or in connection with, a person’s retirement from office; and

(b) where such a retirement is occasioned by a breach of the person’s contract with the society or with a subsidiary undertaking of the society—

(i) payments made by way of damages for the breach; or

(ii) payments made by way of settlement or compromise of any claim in respect of the breach.