Companies. |Ch. 31. No. 1. the sale or purchase, or for any option of purchase, of any property to be acquired by the company, in any case where— (a) the purchase money is not fully paid at the date of the issue of the prospectus; (8) the purchase money is to be paid or satisfied wholly or in part out of the proceeds of the issue offered for subscription by the prospectus ; (c) the contract depends for its validity or fulfilment on the result of that issue. 3. Where any property to be acquired by the company is to be taken on lease, this Schedule shall have effect as if the expression “‘ vendor " included the lessor, and the expression ‘* purchase moncy "’ included the consideration for the lease, and the expression “ sub-purchaser " included a sub-lessee. +. For the purposes of paragraph 8 of Part L. of this Schedule where the vendors or any of them are a firm, the members of the firm shall not be treated as separate vendors, 5. If in the case of a company which has been carrying on business, or of a business which has been carried on for less than three years, the accounts of the company or business have only been made up in respect of two years or one year, Part IT. of this Schedule shall have cffect as if references to two years of one year, as the case may be, were substituted for references to three years. 6. The expression “ financial year ”’ in Part IL. of this Schedule means the year in respect of which the accounts of the company or of the business, as the case may be, are made up, and where by reasons of any alteration of the date on which the financial year of the company or business terminates the accounts of the company or business have been made up for a period greater or less than a year, that greater or less period shall for the purpose of the said Part of this Schedule he deemed to be a financial year. 351