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Part 10A company’s directors

Chapter 9Supplementary provisions

Other definitions

252Persons connected with a director

(1)This section defines what is meant by references in this Part to a person being “connected” with a director of a company (or a director being “connected” with a person).

(2)The following persons (and only those persons) are connected with a director of a company—

(a)members of the director’s family (see section 253);

(b)a body corporate with which the director is connected (as defined in section 254);

(c)a person acting in his capacity as trustee of a trust—

(i)the beneficiaries of which include the director or a person who by virtue of paragraph (a) or (b) is connected with him, or

(ii)the terms of which confer a power on the trustees that may be exercised for the benefit of the director or any such person,

other than a trust for the purposes of an employees' share scheme or a pension scheme;

(d)a person acting in his capacity as partner—

(i)of the director, or

(ii)of a person who, by virtue of paragraph (a), (b) or (c), is connected with that director;

(e)a firm that is a legal person under the law by which it is governed and in which—

(i)the director is a partner,

(ii)a partner is a person who, by virtue of paragraph (a), (b) or (c) is connected with the director, or

(iii)a partner is a firm in which the director is a partner or in which there is a partner who, by virtue of paragraph (a), (b) or (c), is connected with the director.

(3)References in this Part to a person connected with a director of a company do not include a person who is himself a director of the company.