Companies Act, 1990

Disclosure of interests in directors' report.

63.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), the directors' report or the notes to the company's accounts in respect of a financial year shall, as respects each person who, at the end of that year, was a director of the company, state—

(a) whether or not he was, at the end of that year, interested in shares in, or debentures of, the company or any other body corporate being the company's subsidiary or holding company or a subsidiary of the company's holding company;

(b) if he was so interested—

(i) the number and amount of shares in, and debentures of, each body (specifying it) in which he was then interested,

(ii) whether or not he was, at the beginning of that year (or, if he was not then a director, when he became a director), interested in shares in, or debentures of, the company or any other such body corporate, and,

(iii) if he was, the number and amount of shares in, and debentures of, each body (specifying it) in which he was interested at the beginning of that year or, as the case may be, when he became a director.

(2) The reference in subsection (1) to the directors' report and the notes to the company's accounts are references to the report and notes respectively which are required by virtue of the Companies (Amendment) Act, 1986 to be annexed to the Annual Return and where a company does not annex the report of the directors, as permitted by section 10 (2) of the aforementioned Act, the information required in subsection (1) shall be contained in the notes to the company's accounts.

(3) The references in subsection (1) to the time when a person became a director shall, in the case of a person who became a director on more than one occasion, be construed as referring to the time when he first became a director.

(4) For the purposes of this section “the directors' report” means the report by the directors of a company which, by section 158 (1) of the Principal Act, is required to be attached to every balance sheet of the company.

(5) The information required by subsection (1) to be given in respect of the directors of the company shall also be given in respect of the person who was the secretary of the company at the end of the financial year concerned.