Commentary on Sections Miscellaneous Section 85: Regulations about reporting by companies
466.Subsection (1) of this section places a duty on the Secretary of State, by 6th April 2012, either to make regulations under section 416(4) of the Companies Act 2006 (c.46) requiring companies to include in their Directors’ Report such information about emissions as the regulations may require, or to lay before Parliament explaining why he has not done so.
467.Subsection (2) provides that the duty to make regulations is complied with if they concern any specified type of company or any specified category of emissions. The regulations do not have to apply to all of the emissions of all companies.