| [(1) | The directors of every building society shall prepare accounts for the society for each of its financial years. |
| Those accounts are referred to in this Part as the society's “individual accounts”. |
| (2) | A society's individual accounts may be prepared— |
| (a) | in accordance with section 72B (“Building Societies Act individual accounts”), or |
| (b) | in accordance with international accounting standards (“IAS individual accounts”). |
| This subsection is subject to the following provisions of this section and section 72I (consistency of accounts). |
| (3) | After the first financial year in which the directors of a building society prepare IAS individual accounts (“the first IAS year”), all subsequent individual accounts of the society must be prepared in accordance with international accounting standards unless there is a relevant change of circumstance. |
| (4) | There is a relevant change of circumstance if, at any time during or after the first IAS year, the society ceases to have any securities admitted to trading on a regulated market. |
| (5) | If, having changed to preparing Building Societies Act individual accounts following a relevant change of circumstance, the directors again prepare IAS individual accounts for the society, subsections (3) and (4) apply again as if the first financial year for which such accounts are again prepared were the first IAS year.] |
| NOTES |
| Amendment |
| Substituted, together with ss 72B–72I, for ss 72, 73 as originally enacted, by SI 2004/3380, art 2. |
| Date in force: this amendment has effect as respects building societies' financial years which begin on or after 1 January 2005: see SI 2004/3380, art 1(2); for transitional provisions see reg 9 thereof. |
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