Commentary Part 34: Overseas Companies Section 1049: Accounts and reports: general
1341.This section confers on the Secretary of State a power to make regulations requiring overseas companies to prepare accounts and directors’ reports, and to obtain an auditor’s report. The requirements must be like those imposed on companies formed and registered under the Act. The accounts, directors’ report and auditor’s report requirements applying to companies formed and registered under the Act appear in Part 15 (accounts and reports) and Part 16 (audit).
1342.Regulations under this section may require the overseas company to deliver to the registrar of companies copies of the accounts and reports prepared in accordance with the regulations; alternatively the overseas company may be required to deliver to the registrar a copy of the accounts and reports that it prepared and had audited in accordance with the law of the country in which it is incorporated. The registrar will place the accounts and reports on the public register.
1343.Regulations under this section will replace sections 699AA to 703 of, and Schedule 21D to, the 1985 Act. The regulations will be subject to the negative resolution procedure.