The Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006

Statutory reservesN.I.

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275.—(1) If the Department so directs at any time before the successor company ceases to be wholly owned by the Crown, such sum as may be specified in the direction shall be carried by the successor company to a reserve (“the statutory reserve”).

(2) The statutory reserve may only be applied by the successor company—

(a)in paying up unissued shares of the company to be allotted to members of the company as fully paid bonus shares; or

(b)if the Department so directs, as if it were profits available for distribution within the meaning of [F1section 830(2) of the Companies Act 2006].

(3) Notwithstanding paragraph (2), the statutory reserve shall not count as an undistributable reserve of the successor company for the purposes of [F2section 831(4)(d) of the Companies Act 2006]; but for the purpose of determining under [F3that section] whether the successor company may make a distribution at any time any amount for the time being standing to the credit of the statutory reserve (excluding any amount which by virtue of paragraph (2)(b) is authorised to be, but has not yet been, applied as if it were profits available for distribution) shall be treated for the purposes of [F4section 831(4)(c) of that Act] as if it were unrealised profits of the company.

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