Section 409 | Information about related undertakings

(1)The Secretary of State may make provision by regulations requiring information about related undertakings to be given in notes to a company's annual accounts.

(2)The regulations—

(a)may make different provision according to whether or not the company prepares group accounts, and

(b)may specify the descriptions of undertaking in relation to which they apply, and make different provision in relation to different descriptions of related undertaking.

(3)The regulations may provide that information need not be disclosed with respect to an undertaking that—

(a)is established under the law of a country outside the United Kingdom, or

(b)carries on business outside the United Kingdom,

if the following conditions are met.

(4)The conditions are—

(a)that in the opinion of the directors of the company the disclosure would be seriously prejudicial to the business of—

(i)that undertaking,

(ii)the company,

(iii)any of the company's subsidiary undertakings, or

(iv)any other undertaking which is included in the consolidation;

(b)that the Secretary of State agrees that the information need not be disclosed.

(5)Where advantage is taken of any such exemption, that fact must be stated in a note to the company's annual accounts.