SCHEDULES

F2SCHEDULE 20CDelivery of Reports and Accounts: Credit and Financial Institutions to which The Bank Branches Directive (89/117/EEC) applies

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SR 1993/198

PART IINSTITUTIONS REQUIRED TO PREPARE ACCOUNTS UNDER PARENT LAW

Interpretation7

1

In this Part—

  • “financial period”, in relation to an institution means a period for which the institution is required or permitted by its parent law to prepare accounts;

  • “parent law”, in relation to an institution, means the law of the country in which the institution has its head office;

  • and references to disclosure are to public disclosure, except where an institution is not required under its parent law, any statutory provision (within the meaning of section 1(f) of the Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954) having effect for Northern Ireland or its constitution to disclose publicly its accounts, in which case such references are to the disclosure of the accounts to the persons for whose information they have been prepared.

2

For the purposes of this Part, the following are accounting documents in relation to a financial period of an institution—

a

the accounts of the institution of the period, including, if it has one or more subsidiaries, any consolidated accounts of the group,

b

any annual report of the directors (or, in the case of an institution which does not have directors, the persons occupying equivalent offices) for the period,

c

the report of the auditors on the accounts mentioned in head (a), and

d

any report of the auditors on the report mentioned in head (b).