Section 1155 | Indirect ownership of ordinary share capital

(1)For the purposes of this Chapter ordinary share capital is owned indirectly by a body corporate if it is owned through another body corporate or other bodies corporate.

(2)References in this Chapter to ownership through a body corporate are to be read in accordance with subsections (3) and (4).

(3)Suppose that 3 or more bodies corporate are ordered in a series such that each body in the series (other than the last) owns ordinary share capital of the body immediately below it in the series.

(4)If B is a body that is below, but not immediately below, A in the series, A is said to own ordinary share capital of B through each body corporate that is between A and B in the series.

(5)Sections 1156 and 1157 contain rules for calculating, for the purposes of this Chapter, the amount of a body corporate's ordinary share capital that another body corporate owns—

(a)indirectly, or

(b)partly directly and partly indirectly.