Companies Act, 1956
Sec 222 - Construction
of references to documents annexed to accounts.
References in this Act to documents annexed or required to be
annexed to a company's accounts or any of them shall not include the Board's
report, the auditors' report or any document attached or required to be
attached to those accounts:
Provided that any information which is required by this
Act to be given in the accounts, and is allowed by it to be given in a
statement annexed to the accounts, may be given in the Board's report instead
of in the accounts ; and if any such information is so given, the report shall
be annexed to the accounts and this Act shall apply in relation thereto
accordingly, except that the auditors shall report thereon only in so far as it
gives the said information.