[F1 Change of a company’s natureU.K.
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 7A inserted (27.7.1993 with effect as mentioned in s. 88(3) of the amending Act) by 1993 c. 34, c. 88(2), Sch. 8
8(1)If—U.K.
(a)within any period of three years, a company becomes a member of a group of companies and there is (either earlier or later in that period, or at the same time) a major change in the nature or conduct of a trade [F2or business] [F3which was carried on by that company immediately before it became a member of that group], or
(b)at any time after the scale of the activities in a trade [F2or business] carried on by a company has become small or negligible, and before any considerable revival of the trade [F2or business], that company becomes a member of a group of companies,
the trade [F2or business] carried on before that change, or which has become small or negligible, shall be disregarded for the purposes of [F4paragraph 7(1A)] above in relation to any time before the company became a member of the group in question.
[F5(2)In sub-paragraph (1) “a major change in the nature or conduct of a trade or business” includes—
(a)a major change in the type of property dealt in, or services or facilities provided, in the trade or business,
(b)a major change in customers, markets or outlets of the trade or business, or
(c)in the case of a company with investment business (within the meaning of [F6section 1218B] of CTA 2009), a major change in the nature of the investments held;
and this paragraph applies even if the change is the result of a gradual process which began outside the period of three years mentioned in sub-paragraph (1)(a).]
(3)Where the operation of this paragraph depends on circumstances or events at a time after the company becomes a member of any group of companies (but not more than three years after), an assessment to give effect to this paragraph shall not be out of time if made within six years from that time or the latest such time.]
Textual Amendments
F2Words in Sch. 7A para. 8(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 11 paras. 11, 12 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11), Sch. 11 para. 7(2)(a)
F3Words in Sch. 7A para. 8(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 11 paras. 11, 12 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11), Sch. 11 para. 7(2)(b)
F4Words in Sch. 7A para. 8(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 11 paras. 11, 12 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11), Sch. 11 para. 7(2)(c)
F5Sch. 7A para. 8(2) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 11 paras. 11, 12 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11), Sch. 11 para. 7(3)
F6Words in Sch. 7A para. 8(2)(c) substituted (15.9.2016) by Finance Act 2016 (c. 24), s. 55(a)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Sch. 7A para. 8(1) applied by 1988 c. 1, Sch. 28A para. 13 (as inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 26 para. 5 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), Sch. 26 para. 3)