Restrictions on availability of reliefS
3SRelief under this schedule is not available if at the effective date of the transaction there are arrangements in existence by virtue of which, at that or some later time, a person has or could obtain, or any persons together have or could obtain, control of the buyer but not of the seller.
4SParagraph 3 does not apply to arrangements to which paragraph [9, 10 or 10A] applies.
Textual Amendments
Commencement Information
5SRelief under this schedule is not available if the transaction is effected in pursuance of, or in connection with, arrangements under which—
(a)the consideration, or any part of the consideration, for the transaction is to be provided or received (directly or indirectly) by a person other than a group company, or
(b)the seller and the buyer are to cease to be members of the same group by reason of the buyer ceasing to be a 75% subsidiary of the seller or a third company.
6SArrangements are within paragraph 5(a) if under them the seller or the buyer, or another group company, is to be enabled to provide any of the consideration, or is to part with any of it, by or in consequence of the carrying out of a transaction or transactions involving, or any of them involving, a payment or other disposition by a person other than a group company.
7SParagraph 5(b) does not apply to arrangements to which paragraph 10 applies.
8SRelief under this schedule is not available if the transaction—
(a)is not effected for bona fide commercial reasons, or
(b)forms part of arrangements the main purpose, or one of the main purposes, of which is the avoidance of liability to the tax.