Finance Act 1996

[F1 Market value of strips etc for the purposes of paragraphs 8, 9, 14 and 14B U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 13 para. 14E and cross-heading inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 138(11)(12)(15) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), s. 138(8)

14E (1) This paragraph makes provision as to the manner of determining— U.K.

(a) for the purposes of paragraph 8, 9, 14 or 14B above, the market value at any time of a strip, and

(b) for the purposes of paragraph 14(2) above, the market value at any time of a security exchanged for strips of that security.

(2) The market value on any day of a strip or security quoted in the Daily List shall be—

(a) the lower of the two figures shown in the Daily List for the strip or security for that day,

plus

(b) one-quarter of the difference between those two figures,

unless the Stock Exchange is closed on that day.

(3) If the Stock Exchange is closed on any day, the market value on that day of any such strip or security shall be taken to be its market value on the latest previous day or earliest subsequent day on which the Stock Exchange is open, whichever affords the lower value.

(4) In the case of a strip or security which—

(a) is a security, or a strip of a security, issued by or on behalf of the government of a territory outside the United Kingdom, and

(b) is not quoted in the Daily List, but

(c) is quoted in a foreign stock exchange list,

the market value shall be determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (5) below.

(5) In any such case, sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) above shall have effect for determining the market value of the strip or security, but for this purpose those provisions shall have effect—

(a) with the substitution for references to the Daily List of references to the foreign stock exchange list,

(b) with the substitution for references to the Stock Exchange of references to the foreign stock exchange to which that list relates, and

(c) with any modifications which are necessary by reason of the form of quotation adopted in the foreign stock exchange list (including, in a case where a single figure only is published, taking that figure as the market value).

(6) Where a strip or security is quoted in more than one foreign stock exchange list—

(a) any such list published for a foreign stock exchange in the territory of the issuing government shall be used for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5) above in preference to any other such list, and

(b) any such list published for a foreign stock exchange which is regarded as the major exchange in that territory for strips or securities shall be used for those purposes in preference to any other such list.

(7) In this paragraph—

• “the Daily List” means the The Stock Exchange Daily Official List;

• “foreign stock exchange” means a recognised stock exchange in a territory outside the United Kingdom on which strips are traded;

• “foreign stock exchange list” means any publication which performs in the case of a foreign stock exchange a function equivalent, or broadly similar, to that performed by the Daily List in relation to strips;

• “issuing government” means the government which issued the security mentioned in sub-paragraph (4)(a) above.

(8) The Treasury may by regulations make provision as to the manner of determining, for any of the purposes mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above, the market value at any time of—

(a) any strip, or

(b) any security exchanged for strips of that security.

(9) Regulations under sub-paragraph (8) above may—

(a) amend or modify any provision of this paragraph other than that sub-paragraph, sub-paragraph (1) above or this sub-paragraph;

(b) make different provision for different cases; and

(c) contain such incidental, supplemental, consequential and transitional provision and savings as the Treasury may think fit.]