4.—(1) The summary financial statement shall contain, in the case of a company the directors of which are required to prepare group accounts for the financial year, a summary consolidated profit and loss account showing the items or combinations of items required by paragraph 3, in the order required by that paragraph and under such headings as the directors consider appropriate, but with the modifications specified in sub-paragraph (2).
(2) The modifications referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are as follows—
(a)in place of the information required by paragraph 3(3)(b), there shall be shown, under such heading as the directors consider appropriate, the item “Income from interests in associated undertakings” required to be shown in the Schedule 4 formats by paragraph 21(3) of Schedule 4A to the 1986 Order(1);
(b)between the information required by paragraph 3(3)(f) and that required by paragraph 3(3)(g) there shall in addition be shown, under such heading as the directors consider appropriate, the item “Minority interests” required to be shown in the Schedule 4 formats by paragraph 17(3) of Schedule 4A to the 1986 Order; and
(c)the figure required by paragraph 3(3)(g) shall be shown after the deduction or the addition (as the case may be) of the item “Minority interests” required to be shown in the Schedule 4 formats by paragraph 17(4) of Schedule 4A to the 1986 Order.
Schedule 4A was inserted by Articles 3 and 7(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1990