SCHEDULE 1Persons who have significant influence or control over another
PART 5Overseas entities
Interpretation of Part 5
22.
(1)
A person holds a right “indirectly” if the person has a majority stake in an overseas entity and that entity—
(a)
holds that right, or
(b)
is part of a chain of legal entities—
(i)
each of which (other than the last) has a majority stake in the entity immediately below it in the chain, and
(ii)
the last of which holds that right.
(2)
For these purposes, a person (“A”) has a “majority stake” in a legal entity (“B”) if—
(a)
A holds a majority of the voting rights in B,
(b)
A is a member of B and has the power to appoint or remove a majority of the board of directors of B,
(c)
A is a member of B and controls alone, pursuant to an agreement with other shareholders or members, a majority of the voting rights in B, or
(d)
A has the right to exercise, or actually exercises, control over B.
(3)
In the application of this paragraph to the power to appoint or remove a majority of the board of directors, a legal entity is to be treated as having the right to appoint a director if—
(a)
a person’s appointment as a director follows necessarily from that person’s appointment as director of the legal entity, or
(b)
the directorship is held by the legal entity itself.