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51(1)Where a distribution is proposed to be declared during the accounting reference period of the successor company which includes the transfer date or before any accounts are laid or filed in respect of that period, section 43 of the [1980 c. 22.] Companies Act 1980 (relevant accounts) shall have effect as if—
(a)references in subsection (1) to the relevant accounts ; and
(b)references in subsections (6) and (8) to initial accounts,
included references to such accounts as are mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) below.
(2)The said accounts are such accounts as, on the assumptions stated in sub-paragraph (3) below, would have been prepared under section 1 of the [1976 c. 69.] Companies Act 1976 in respect of the relevant year.
(3)The said assumptions are—
(a)that the relevant year had been a financial year of the successor company;
(b)that the vesting effected by section 60 of this Act had been a vesting of all the property, rights and liabilities (other than the excepted liabilities) to which British Telecommunications was entitled or subject immediately before the beginning of the relevant year and had been effected immediately after the beginning of that year ;
(c)that the value of any asset and the amount of any liability of British Telecommunications vested in the successor company by virtue of that section had been the value or (as the case may be) the amount assigned to that asset or liability for the purposes of the statement of accounts prepared by British Telecommunications in respect of the accounting year immediately preceding the relevant year ;
(d)that any securities of the successor company issued or allotted before the declaration of the distribution had been issued or allotted before the end of the relevant year ; and
(e)such other assumptions (if any) as may appear to the directors of the successor company to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of this paragraph.
(4)For the purposes of the said accounts the amount to be included in respect of any item shall be determined as if anything done by British Telecommunications (whether by way of acquiring, revaluing or disposing of any asset or incurring, revaluing or discharging any liability, or by carrying any amount to any provision or reserve, or otherwise) had been done by the successor company.
Accordingly (but without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provision) the amount to be included in any reserves of the successor company as representing its accumulated realised profits shall be determined as if any profits realised and retained by British Telecommunications had been realised and retained by the successor company.
(5)The said accounts shall not be regarded as statutory accounts for the purposes of section 66 of this Act.
(6)In this paragraph—
" complete accounting year " means an accounting year ending with 31st March ;
" the relevant year " means the last complete accounting year of British Telecommunications ending before the transfer date;
" securities " has the same meaning as in Part V of this Act.
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