Finance Act 1983

Effect of election

3 (1) The provisions of this paragraph have effect where an election is made under this Schedule.

(2) The election shall have effect with respect to all disposals after 31st March 1982 of qualifying securities held solely and beneficially by the company making the election.

(3) For the purposes of the principal Act, qualifying securities—

(a) which are of the same class, and

(b) which have been held by the .company making the election for such a length of time that, on a disposal of them, the disposal would not be regarded as occurring within the qualifying period,

shall be regarded as indistinguishable parts of a single asset (in this paragraph referred to as a holding) diminishing or growing on the occasions on which some of the securities of the class in question are disposed of or additional securities of the class in question which have been previously acquired become held as mentioned in paragraph (b) above.

(4) Without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (3) above, a disposal of securities in a holding, other than the disposal outright of the entire holding, is a disposal of part of an asset and the provisions of the principal Act relating to the computation of a gain accruing on a disposal of part of an asset shall apply accordingly.

(5) In accordance with the preceding provisions of this paragraph, where an election is made under this Schedule, the holding shall come (or, as the case may be, shall be treated as having come) into being—

(a) on the first anniversary of the first acquisition of qualifying securities of a particular description ; or

(b) if Part II of Schedule 13 to the 1982 Act applies so that " the holding " for the purposes of this paragraph consists of or includes what is "the holding" or "the reduced holding " referred to in paragraph 8 or paragraph 9 of that Schedule, on 1st April 1982.

(6) In its application to a holding, subsection (1) of section 86 of the 1982 Act (conditions for the existence of the indexation allowance) shall have effect as if the condition in paragraph (b) (the qualifying period) were always fulfilled.

(7) Shares or securities of a company shall not be treated for the purposes of this Schedule as being of the same class unless they are so treated by the practice of The Stock Exchange or would be so treated if dealt with on The Stock Exchange.