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2(1)The following provisions of this paragraph shall have effect for the purposes of any statutory accounts of a successor company.U.K.
(2)The vesting in the company effected by any preparatory scheme shall be taken—
(a)to have been effected immediately after the end of the last financial year of the BBC to end before the coming into force of the scheme, and
(b)to have been a vesting of such property, rights and liabilities as are determined by or under the scheme.
(3)The value of any asset and the amount of any liability which is taken by virtue of sub-paragraph (2) to have been vested in the company shall be taken to have been—
(a)in the case where the value or amount is determined by or under the preparatory scheme, that value or amount, and
(b)in any other case, the value or amount assigned to the asset or liability for the purposes of the Account or Accounts prepared by the BBC for the purposes of Article 18(2) of the Charter in respect of their last financial year to end before the day on which the preparatory scheme comes into force.
(4)If an Account or Accounts are prepared by the BBC for the purposes of Article 18(2) of the Charter in respect of the residual part of a financial year, that residual part shall be treated as a financial year of the BBC for the purposes of sub-paragraph (3).
(5)In this paragraph “statutory accounts”, in relation to a company, means any accounts of that company prepared for the purposes of any provision of the [F1the Companies Act 2006] .
Textual Amendments
F1Words in Sch. 6 para. 2(5) substituted (6.4.2008) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments etc) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/948), art. 2(2), Sch. 1 para. 203(2) (with arts. 6, 11, 12)
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