PART 6DELIVERY OF ACCOUNTING DOCUMENTS: CREDIT OR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
CHAPTER 3Institutions not required to prepare accounts under parent law
Penalty for non-compliance56
Section 451 of the Companies Act 2006 applies in relation to an institution to which this Chapter applies, modified so that it reads as follows—
451Default in filing accounts: offences
1
If the requirements of section 441 (duty to file accounts) are not complied with in relation to an institution’s accounts for a financial year before the end of the period for filing those accounts, every person who immediately before the end of that period was a director of the institution commits an offence.
2
It is a defence for a person charged with such an offence to prove that he took all reasonable steps for securing that those requirements would be complied with before the end of that period.
3
It is not a defence to prove that the documents in question were not in fact prepared as required by this Part.
4
A person guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale and, for continued contravention, a daily default fine not exceeding one-tenth of level 5 on the standard scale.