Part 38Companies: interpretation
Meaning of “subsidiary” and related expressions
1159Meaning of “subsidiary” etc
(1)
A company is a “subsidiary” of another company, its “holding company”, if that other company—
(a)
holds a majority of the voting rights in it, or
(b)
is a member of it and has the right to appoint or remove a majority of its board of directors, or
(c)
is a member of it and controls alone, pursuant to an agreement with other members, a majority of the voting rights in it,
or if it is a subsidiary of a company that is itself a subsidiary of that other company.
(2)
A company is a “wholly-owned subsidiary” of another company if it has no members except that other and that other's wholly-owned subsidiaries or persons acting on behalf of that other or its wholly-owned subsidiaries.
(3)
Schedule 6 contains provisions explaining expressions used in this section and otherwise supplementing this section.
(4)
In this section and that Schedule “company” includes any body corporate.