(1) An investment company may make a distribution out of its accumulated, realised revenue profits if the following conditions are met.
(2) It may make such a distribution only if, and to the extent that, its accumulated, realised revenue profits, so far as not previously utilised by a distribution or capitalisation, exceed its accumulated revenue losses (whether realised or unrealised), so far as not previously written off in a reduction or reorganisation of capital duly made.
(3) It may make such a distribution only -
(a) if the amount of its assets is at least equal to one and a half times the aggregate of its liabilities to creditors, and
(b) if, and to the extent that, the distribution does not reduce that amount to less than one and a half times that aggregate.
(4) For this purpose a company's liabilities to creditors include -
(a) in the case of Companies Act accounts, provisions of a kind specified for the purposes of this subsection by regulations under section 396;
(b) in the
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