Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 7D inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 723(1)(a)(b) of the amending Act) by Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1), s. 723, Sch. 6 para. 221 (with Sch. 7)
14(1)This Part of this Schedule forms part of the EMI code (see section 527 of ITEPA 2003 (enterprise management incentives: qualifying options)).U.K.
(2)Accordingly, expressions used in this Part of this Schedule and contained in the index at the end of Schedule 5 to that Act (enterprise management incentives) have the meaning indicated by the index.
(3)In this Part of this Schedule, “qualifying shares”—
(a)means shares acquired by the exercise of a qualifying option, subject to sub-paragraphs (4) and (5), and
(b)includes shares (“replacement shares”) which—
(i)are treated under section 127 (equation of original shares and new holding) as the same asset as a holding of qualifying shares, and
(ii)meet the requirements of paragraph 35 of Schedule 5 to ITEPA 2003 (type of shares that may be acquired).
(4)If a disqualifying event occurs in relation to a qualifying option (whether the original option or a replacement option), shares acquired by the exercise of that option are qualifying shares only if the option is exercised within 40 days of that event.
(5)References in this Part of this Schedule to “the original option”, where there has been one or more replacement options, are to the option that the replacement option (or, if there has been more than one, the first of them) replaced.
15U.K.For the purposes of computing taper relief on a disposal of qualifying shares, the shares are treated as if they had been acquired when the original option was granted.
16U.K.Where—
(a)an individual holds qualifying shares, and
(b)there is, by virtue of any such allotment for payment as is mentioned in section 126(2)(a) (allotment in proportion to shareholdings), a reorganisation affecting that holding,
sections 127 to 130 (which relate to reorganisation or reduction of share capital) shall not apply in relation to that holding.]