Industrial and provident societies: group accounts
14 Exemption from requirements in respect of group accounts.
1
Section 13 of this Act shall not require group accounts to be prepared by an industrial and provident society where that society is at the end of its year of account the wholly owned subsidiary of another body corporate incorporated in Great Britain.
2
The group accounts of an industrial and provident society prepared under that section need not deal with a subsidiary of the society if in the opinion of the committee of the society, approved by the Chief Registrar—
a
it is impracticable, or would be of no real value to members of the society, in view of the insignificant amounts involved, or would involve expense or delay out of proportion to the value to members of the society; or
b
the result would be misleading, or harmful to the business of the society or any of its subsidiaries; or
c
the business of the society and that of the subsidiary are so different that they cannot reasonably be treated as a single undertaking.
3
If in respect of each subsidiary of an industrial and provident society the committee of the society is of any such opinion as is mentioned in the last preceding subsection and that opinion is approved by the Chief Registrar, then that industrial and provident society shall not be required to cause group accounts to be prepared under section 13 of this Act.
F13A
In relation to any year of account of an industrial and provident society, a subsidiary of the society shall be disregarded for the purposes of section 13 of this Act if—
a
the society’s previous year of account was one in relation to which the subsidiary was not required to be dealt with in group accounts of the society for that year,
b
the reason for that was subsection (2) or (3) of this section or this subsection, and
c
the auditors of the society include in the appropriate report a certificate to the effect that they agree with the committee of the society that—
i
the reason given by the committee in their last opinion in respect of the subsidiary to have been approved by the Chief Registrar under subsection (2) or (3) of this section, and
ii
the grounds so given by them for that reason,
continued to apply throughout the year of account.
3B
For the purposes of subsection (3A)(c) of this section, the appropriate report is—
a
where the year of account is one in relation to which the society is subject to the obligation under subsection (1) of section 13 of this Act, the report required to be made under subsection (5) of that section by the society’s auditors, and
b
where it is not, the report required to be made by them under section 9(1) of this Act.
3C
A certificate shall be disregarded for the purposes of subsection (3A)(c) of this section if contained in a report made after the date which, in relation to the year to which the certificate relates, is the last date for making the return required by section 39(1) of the Act of 1965 (annual return).
4
For the purposes of this section an industrial and provident society shall be deemed to be the wholly owned subsidiary of another body corporate if it has no members except that other body corporate and the wholly owned subsidiaries of that body and its or their nominees.