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The Companies Act 1985 (Accounts of Small and Medium-sized Companies and Minor Accounting Amendments) Regulations 1997

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4.  After section 247 of the 1985 Act(1) there shall be inserted the following section—

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247A.(1) Nothing in section 246 or 246A shall apply where—

(a)the company is, or was at any time within the financial year to which the accounts relate—

(i)a public company,

(ii)a banking or insurance company, or

(iii)an authorised person under the Financial Services Act 1986; or

(b)the company is, or was at any time during that year, a member of an ineligible group.

(2) A group is ineligible if any of its members is—

(a)a public company or a body corporate which (not being a company) has power under its constitution to offer its shares or debentures to the public and may lawfully exercise that power,

(b)an authorised institution under the Banking Act 1987,

(c)an insurance company to which Part II of the Insurance Companies Act 1982 applies, or

(d)an authorised person under the Financial Services Act 1986.

(3) A parent company shall not be treated as qualifying as a small company in relation to a financial year unless the group headed by it qualifies as a small group, and shall not be treated as qualifying as a medium-sized company in relation to a financial year unless that group qualifies as a medium-sized group (see section 249).

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Section 247 was substituted by section 13(1) of the Companies Act 1989 and amended by regulation 5 of S.I. 1992/2452 and by regulation 8 of S.I. 1996/189.

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