Commentary on Sections Background Section 72: “Licensable body”
184.This section defines licensable bodies. They are bodies that have at least one manager who is not an authorised person (as defined in section 111) or at least one person who has an interest or an indirect interest in shares in the body who is not an authorised person. Section 207 defines a manager as: a member, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members; a director, in relation to a body corporate if its affairs are not managed by its members; a partner, if the body is a partnership; and a member of its governing body, if it is an unincorporated body other than a partnership.
185.By section 72(3), a person holds an interest in a body if he owns shares in it or is entitled to exercise or control the exercise of voting rights in it. By section 72(6), “shares” means:
	where the body has share capital, allotted shares as defined in the Companies Acts;
	where it has capital but no share capital, the right to share in its capital; and
	where it has no capital, an interest with the right to share in profits or the liability to contribute to losses, or giving rise to an obligation to contribute to the body’s debts or expenses on winding up.