Section 6.
1This Schedule applies to business of a kind which consists wholly or mainly in activities other than iron or steel activities and, for the purposes of this Schedule, classes of business that do not differ substantially from each other shall be treated as one class of business.
2(1)If a body in the group consisting of the Corporation and any publicly-owned companies has, in the course of a financial year of the body ending after such date as the Secretary of State may determine for the purposes of this paragraph, carried on business of a kind to which this Schedule applies or business of that kind of two or more classes, the Corporation shall determine the amount of the turnover of the body for that financial year in respect of business of that kind or of each of those classes, as the case may be.
(2)Where the amount of that turnover in respect of business of that kind or of any of those classes, as the case may be, is determined by the Corporation to have exceeded £250,000, there shall be contained, in the report which the Corporation are required to make under section 6(2) of this Act (being, if the body referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above is the Corporation, the report which they are so required to make next after the end of the financial year therein referred to and, if the body is a publicly-owned company, the report which the Corporation are so required to make next after the end of the financial year of the Corporation with or within which the first-mentioned financial year ends), a statement of—
(a)the amount of that turnover ;
(b)the extent or approximate extent (expressed, in either case, in monetary terms), as determined by the Corporation, to which the carrying on by the body of business of that kind or class, as the case may be, contributed to, or restricted, the profit or loss of the body for the financial year of the body before taxation ;
(c)the extent or approximate extent, as so determined, to which capital moneys were, in the course of that financial year, employed in the carrying on by the body of business of that kind or class, as the case may be ; and
(d)such further information, if any, relating to the carrying on by the body of business of that kind or class, as the case may be, as the Secretary of State may from time to time direct.
3(1)If, in the course of a financial year of the Corporation ending after such date as the Secretary of State may determine for the purposes of this paragraph, any two or more bodies in the group consisting of the Corporation and any publicly-owned companies have carried on business of a kind to which this Schedule applies or business of that kind of two or more classes, the 'Corporation shall determine the amount of the turnover of those bodies as a whole for that financial year in respect of business of that kind or of each of those classes, as the case may be.
(2)Where the amount of that turnover in respect of business of that kind or of any of those classes, as the case may be, is determined by the Corporation to have exceeded £1,000,000, there shall be contained, in the report which the Corporation are required to make under section 6(2) of this Act next after the end of the financial year referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above, a statement of—
(a)the amount of that turnover ;
(b)the extent or approximate extent (expressed, in either case, in monetary terms), as determined by the Corporation, to which the carrying on by the bodies therein referred to of business of that kind or class, as the case may be, contributed to or restricted the profit or loss of the Corporation and the publicly-owned companies as a whole for that financial year ;
(c)the extent or approximate extent, as so determined, to which capital moneys were, in the course of that year, employed in the carrying on by those bodies as a whole of business of that kind or class, as the case may be ;
(d)such further information, if any, relating to the carrying on by those bodies of business of that kind or class, as the case may be, as the Secretary of State may from time to time direct.
4Each report made by the Corporation under section 6(2) of this Act after they are required to make a determination in pursuance of paragraph 2 or 3 above shall contain a statement of the method or, if more than one method is used, of each method, by which turnover is determined by the Corporation for the purposes of that paragraph ; and, in any such report containing a statement made in pursuance of either of those paragraphs, there shall be stated with respect to each matter involving a determination by the Corporation (other than the determination of an amount of turnover) the method by which that determination is arrived at.
5The method used in arriving at a determination in any case for the purposes of paragraph 2(2)(c) above, and that used in arriving at a determination in any case for the purposes of paragraph 3(2)(c) above, shall be such as, when examined in conjunction with the determination made, in the first-mentioned case, in pursuance of paragraph 2(2)(b) above and that made, in the second-mentioned case, in pursuance of paragraph 3(2)(b) above, will give a true and fair view of the relationship in those cases respectively between capital employed and profits made or loss incurred.
6The Corporation shall not be required, by virtue of this Schedule, to supply information which is supplied in any statement, note, account or report sent by the Corporation to the Secretary of State in pursuance of section 24(4) of this Act.
7The Secretary of State may from time to time direct that this Schedule or a provision thereof shall not apply to business of a class or description specified in the direction ; and if the Secretary of State gives a direction under this paragraph, that fact, and the class or description of business to which the direction relates, shall be stated in each report made under section 6(2) of this Act so long as that direction is in force.
8The Secretary of State may from time to time vary the amount by reference to which it is to be determined, under paragraph 2 or 3 above, whether a statement is to be contained in a report, and may fix different amounts under this paragraph for different purposes.