(1)If the last annual accounts of a company involved in the division relate to a financial year ending more than seven months before the first meeting of the company summoned for the purposes of approving the scheme, the directors of that company must prepare a supplementary accounting statement.
(2)That statement must consist of—
(a)a balance sheet dealing with the state of affairs of the company as at a date not more than three months before the draft terms were adopted by the directors, and
(b)where the company would be required under section 399 to prepare group accounts if that date were the last day of a financial year, a consolidated balance sheet dealing with the state of affairs of the company and the undertakings that would be included in such a consolidation.
(3)The requirements of this Act (and where relevant Article 4 of the IAS Regulation) as to the balance sheet forming part of a company’s annual accounts, and the matters to be included in notes to it, apply to the balance sheet required for an accounting statement under this section, with such modifications as are necessary by reason of its being prepared otherwise than as at the last day of a financial year.
(4)The provisions of section 414 as to the approval and signing of accounts apply to the balance sheet required for an accounting statement under this section.
(5)The requirement in this section is subject to section 933 (agreement to dispense with reports etc).