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21(1)If—
(a)the proceeds, or any part of the proceeds, of the issue of the shares or debentures are or is to be applied directly or indirectly in any manner resulting in the acquisition by the company of shares in any other body corporate ; and
(b)by reason of that acquisition or anything td be done in consequence thereof or in connection therewith that body corporate will become a subsidiary of the company;
a report made by accountants (who shall be named in the prospectus) upon—
(i)the profits or losses of the other body corporate in respect of each of the five financial years immediately preceding the issue of the prospectus; and
(ii)the assets and liabilities of the other body corporate at the last date to which the accounts of the body corporate were made up.
(2)The said report shall—
(a)indicate how the profits or losses of the other body corporate dealt with by the report would, in respect of the shares to be acquired, have concerned members of the company and what allowance would have fallen to be made, in relation to assets and liabilities so dealt with, for holders of other shares, if the company had at all material times held the shares to be acquired; and
(b)where the other body corporate has subsidiaries, deal with the profits or losses and the assets and liabilities of the body corporate and its subsidiaries in, the manner provided by sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 19 of this Schedule in relation to the company and its subsidiaries.
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