F120[277. (1) Subsection (2) is in addition to the provision made by this Part enabling certain elections to be made by a company that qualifies for the small companies regime or the micro companies regime.

(2) Any provision of this Part providing for an exemption from a requirement of this Part does not prevent the company concerned, if it so chooses, from doing the thing that the provision provides it is exempted from doing (the "specified thing").

(3) If the company concerned chooses to do the specified thing—

(a) the provisions required by this Part to be complied with, in relation to the doing of such a thing, and

(b) the provisions specified by this Part to apply, in a case where such a thing is done,

as the case may be, shall be complied with or shall apply accordingly, but this does not prejudice any provision of this Part concerning the making of an election referred to in subsection (1) by a company there referred to (or concerning the effect of the company’s having so done).

(4) Subsection (2) applies whether the expression "shall be exempt" or "need not" or any other form of words is used in the provision concerned.]