SCHEDULE 7MINOR AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

PART 1AMENDMENTS OF THE COMPANIES ACT 1985

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Section 228 (exemption for parent companies included in accounts of larger group) is amended as follows.

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In subsections (1) and (2)(a) for “a member State of the European Economic Community” substitute “an EEA State”.

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In subsection (3), omit from “listed” to the end, and substitute “admitted to trading on a regulated market of any EEA State within the meaning of Council Directive 93/22/EEC on investment services in the securities field”.