139Exceptions to requirement to prepare group accounts
(1)The requirement in section 138(2) does not apply to the charity trustees of a parent charity in relation to a financial year if at the end of that year it is itself a subsidiary undertaking in relation to another charity.
(2)The requirement in section 138(2) does not apply to the charity trustees of a parent charity in relation to a financial year if the aggregate gross income of the group for that year does not exceed such sum as is specified in regulations made by the Minister.
(3)Regulations made by the Minister may prescribe circumstances in which a subsidiary undertaking may or (as the case may be) must be excluded from group accounts required to be prepared under section 138(2) for a financial year.
(4)Where, by virtue of such regulations, each of the subsidiary undertakings which are members of a group is—
(a)permitted to be excluded from any such group accounts for a financial year, or
(b)required to be so excluded,
the requirement in section 138(2) does not apply to the charity trustees of the parent charity in relation to that year.