(1)The total amount of relevant investments made in the issuing company on or before the issue date must not exceed—
(a)if the issuing company is a knowledge-intensive company at the issue date (see section 252A), £20 million, and
(b)in any other case, £12 million.
(2)In subsection (1) the reference to relevant investments made in the issuing company includes—
(a)any relevant investment made in any company that at the issue date is, or has at any time before that date been, a 51% subsidiary of the issuing company (including investments made in such a company before it became such a subsidiary but, if it is not such a subsidiary at the issue date, not investments made in it after it last ceased to be such a subsidiary),
(b)any other relevant investment made in a company to the extent that the money raised by the investment has been employed for the purposes of a trade carried on by another company that has at any time before the issue date been a 51% subsidiary of the issuing company (but, if it is not such a subsidiary at that date, ignoring any money so employed after it last ceased to be such a subsidiary), and
(c)any other relevant investment made in a company if—
(i)the money raised by the investment has been employed for the purposes of a trade carried on by that company or another person, and
(ii)after the investment was made, but on or before the issue date, that trade became a relevant transferred trade (see subsection (4)).
(3)If only a proportion of the money raised by a relevant investment is employed for the purposes of a trade which becomes a relevant transferred trade, the reference in subsection (2)(c) to the relevant investment is to be read as a reference to the corresponding proportion of that investment.
(4)Where—
(a)at any time on or before the issue date, a trade is transferred—
(i)to the issuing company,
(ii)to a company that at the issue date is, or has at any time before that date been, a 51% subsidiary of the issuing company, or
(iii)to a partnership of which a company within sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) is a member,
(including where it is transferred to a company within sub-paragraph (ii), or a partnership of which such a company is a member, before the company became such a subsidiary but, if the company is not such a subsidiary at the issue date, not where it is transferred to such a company or partnership after the company last ceased to be such a subsidiary), and
(b)the trade or a part of it was previously (at any time) carried on by another person,
the trade or part mentioned in paragraph (b) becomes a “ relevant transferred trade ” at the time it is transferred as mentioned in paragraph (a).
(5)In this section—
“the issue date” means the date on which the relevant shares are issued;
“relevant investment” has the meaning given by section 173A(3), and section 173A(4) and (5) (which determines when certain investments are made) applies for the purposes of this section;
and section 173A(6) and (7) (meaning of “trade” etc) applies for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of section 173A.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 173AA, 173AB inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 5 para. 23 of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2015 (c. 33), Sch. 5 para. 8