Statutory Instrument 2002 No. 1986

      The Directors' Remuneration Report Regulations 2002


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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2002 No. 1986

COMPANIES

The Directors' Remuneration Report Regulations 2002

  Made 25th July 2002 
  Coming into force 1st August 2002 

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon her by section 257 of the Companies Act 1985[1] and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf hereby makes the following Regulations of which a draft has been laid before Parliament in accordance with section 257(2) of that Act and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament:

Citation, commencement and interpretation
     1.  - (1) These Regulations may be cited as the Directors' Remuneration Report Regulations 2002.

    (2) These Regulations shall come into force on 1st August 2002 and shall have effect as respects companies' financial years ending on or after 31st December 2002.

    (3) In these Regulations, "the Act" means the Companies Act 1985.

Disclosure required in notes to accounts
    
2. For section 232 (1) of the Act substitute - 

        " (1) The information specified in Schedule 6 shall be given in notes to a company's annual accounts, save that the information specified in paragraphs 2-14 in Part I of Schedule 6 shall be given only in the case of a company which is not a quoted company."

Directors' remuneration report
    
3. After section 234A of the Act, insert - 

Auditors' report
    
4. In section 235 of the Act, after subsection (3) insert - 

Duties of auditors
    
5. In section 237(1) of the Act, after paragraph (b), insert

     6. For section 237(4) of the Act, substitute - 

Members' vote on directors' remuneration report
    
7. After section 241 of the Act, insert - 

Provision of summary financial statement to shareholders
    
8.  - (1) Section 251 of the Act shall be amended as follows.

    (2) For subsection (3) substitute - 

    (3) For subsection (4) substitute - 

Content of directors' remuneration report
    
9. After Schedule 7 to the Act insert the Schedule 7A which is set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Minor and consequential amendments
    
10.  - (1) The following minor and consequential amendments to the Act shall have effect.

    (2) In section 237(2), after "the company's individual accounts are not in agreement with the accounting records and returns," insert "or if in the case of a quoted company the auditable part of its directors' remuneration report is not in agreement with the accounting records and returns,".

    (3) In section 238 (1), for "A copy of the company's annual accounts, together with a copy of the directors' report for that financial year and of the auditors' report on those accounts," substitute "A copy of each of the documents mentioned in subsection (1A)."

    (4) In section 238, after subsection (1), insert - 

    (5) In section 238(4A), for "a company's annual accounts, of the directors' report and of the auditors' report" substitute "copies of the documents mentioned in subsection (1A)."

    (6) In section 239 (1), for the words after "without charge," substitute

    (7) In section 241 (1), for the words after "lay before the company in general meeting" substitute

    (8) In section 242(1), for the words after "deliver to the registrar" substitute

    (9) In section 245 - 

    (10) In section 245B(3)(b) after the words "directors' report" insert ", directors' remuneration report".

    (11) In section 262(1), after the definition of "qualified" insert - 

    (12) In section 262A, after the entry for "associated undertaking" insert - 

"auditable part (of a directors' remuneration report) section 235(5)"


"quoted company section 262(1)".


    (13) In Schedule 6 - 





    (14) In Schedule 24 insert - 


(b) after the entry for section 241(2) or 242(2),

241A(9) Default in complying with the requirements of section 241A(3) and (4) Summary One fifth of the statutory maximum.
241A(10) Failure to put resolution to vote of meeting Summary One fifth of the statutory maximum."



Melanie Johnson,
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Competition, Consumers and Markets, Department of Trade and Industry

25th July 2002



SCHEDULE








EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


Schedule 6 of the Companies Act 1985 requires a company to produce certain information concerning directors' remuneration by way of notes to the company's accounts. These regulations exempt a quoted company from most of the requirements contained in Part I of Schedule 6 and instead require such a company to set out a large part of the information concerning directors' remuneration in the directors' remuneration report. Part I of Schedule 6 will continue to apply to companies which are not quoted and Parts II and III of that Schedule will apply to both quoted and unquoted companies.

A quoted company is defined in regulation 10 as a company whose equity share capital has been included in the official list in accordance with the provisions of Part VI of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, is officially listed in an EEA State or is admitted to dealing on either the New York Stock Exchange or the exchange known as Nasdaq.

The directors of a quoted company are required to produce for each financial year a directors' remuneration report which shall be approved by the board of directors and signed on behalf of the directors by a director or the secretary of the company.

The company's auditors are to report to the company as to whether that part of the directors' remuneration report which contains the information required by Part 3 of Schedule 7A has been properly prepared in accordance with the Companies Act 1985. To the extent that the requirements of Schedule 6 or Part 3 of Schedule 7A are not complied with the auditors shall include in their report, so far as they are reasonably able to do so, a statement giving the required particulars.

A copy of the directors' remuneration report is to be sent to each member of the company, every holder of the company's debentures and every person who is entitled to receive notice of general meetings. If the quoted company is also a listed company, to which section 251 Companies Act 1985 applies, then it may send to those persons a summary financial statement instead of the accounts, directors' report and directors' remuneration report. The content of the summary financial statement is set out in the Companies (Summary Financial Statement) Regulations 1995 (SI 1995/2092) and it is proposed to amend those regulations to set out those elements of the directors' remuneration report which are to be summarised in the summary financial statement.

Regulation 7 inserts a new section 241A into the Companies Act 1985 which requires that a resolution approving the directors' remuneration report for the financial year is moved as an ordinary resolution at the general meeting of the company before which the company's annual accounts for the financial year are laid.

A quoted company is, in addition, required to deliver a copy of the directors' remuneration report to the Registrar of Companies.

Part 2 of Schedule 7A requires information concerning four areas. First, circumstances surrounding the consideration by the directors of matters pertaining to directors' remuneration. Second, a statement of the company's policy on directors' remuneration for the following financial year. Third, a performance graph which sets out the total shareholder return of the company on the class of equity share capital, if any, which caused the company to fall within the definition of "quoted company". Finally, Part 2 requires certain information to be set out concerning each director's contract of service or contract for services.

Part 3 of Schedule 7A requires detailed information to be set out concerning the emoluments, share options, long term incentive plans, pensions, compensation and excess retirement benefits of each director and, in some cases, of past directors as well.

A Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared. Copies can be obtained from David Styles, Company Law and Investigations Directorate, DTI, 1 Victoria St, London SW1H 0ET, telephone 020 7215 0211. Copies of which have been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament.


Notes:

[1] 1985 c. 6; section 257 was substituted by sections 1 and 20 of the Companies Act 1989 (c.40).back



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