COMPANIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1960 - SECT 188 Particulars in accounts of loans to officers, etc.

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COMPANIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1960 - SECT 188

Particulars in accounts of loans to officers, etc.

188.(1) The accounts which, in pursuance of this Act, are to be laid before
every company in general meeting shall, subject to the provisions of this
section, contain particulars showing

(a)the amount of any loans made during the company's financial year to

(i)any officer of the company; or

(ii)any person who, after the making of the loan, became during that year an
officer of the company;

(a)by the company or a subsidiary thereof or by any other person under a
guarantee from or on a security provided by the company or a subsidiary
thereof (including any such loans which were repaid during that year); and

(b)the amount of any loans made in manner aforesaid to any such officer or
person as aforesaid at any time before the company's financial year and
outstanding at the expiration thereof.

(2) Sub-section (1) shall not require the inclusion in accounts of particulars
of

(a)a loan made in the ordinary course of its business by the company or a
subsidiary thereof, where the ordinary business of the company or, as the case
may be, the subsidiary, includes the lending of money; or

(b)a loan made by the company or a subsidiary thereof to an employee of
the company or subsidiary, as the case may be, if the loan does not exceed two
thousand pounds and is certified by the directors of the company or
subsidiary, as the case may be, to have been made in accordance with any
practice adopted or about to be adopted by the company or subsidiary with
respect to loans to its employees;

(3) If in the case of any such accounts as aforesaid the requirements of this
section are not complied with, it shall be the duty of the auditors of
the company by whom the accounts are examined to include in their report on
the balance sheet of the company, so far as they are reasonably able to do so,
a statement giving the required particulars.

(4) References in this section to a subsidiary shall be taken as referring to
a subsidiary at the end of the company's financial year (whether or not a
subsidiary at the date of the loan).

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COMPANIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1960 - SECT 188