Section 1159: Meaning of "subsidiary" etc

Companies Act 2006 · 2006 c. 46View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 38: Companies: interpretation

A company is a "subsidiary" of another company, its "holding company", if that other company—

holds a majority of the voting rights in it, or
is a member of it and has the right to appoint or remove a majority of its board of directors, or
is a member of it and controls alone, pursuant to an agreement with other members, a majority of the voting rights in it,

or if it is a subsidiary of a company that is itself a subsidiary of that other company.

A company is a "wholly-owned subsidiary" of another company if it has no members except that other and that other's wholly-owned subsidiaries or persons acting on behalf of that other or its wholly-owned subsidiaries.

Schedule 6 contains provisions explaining expressions used in this section and otherwise supplementing this section.

In this section and that Schedule "company" includes any body corporate.

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