s 24 Power of company to provide for employees on cessation of business
24.—(1) The powers of a company are, if they would not otherwise do so, deemed to include power to make provision, in connection with any cessation of the whole or any part of the business carried on by the company or any subsidiary of the company, for the benefit of persons employed or formerly employed by the company or its subsidiary. (2) Subsection (1) relates only to the capacity of a company as a body corporate and does not affect any provision in a company’s constitution requiring any exercise of the power mentioned in that subsection to be approved by the company in general meeting or otherwise prescribing the manner in which that power is to be exercised.[36/2014]