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(1)Section 455 does not apply to a loan or advance made in the ordinary course of a business carried on by a company if the business includes the lending of money.
(2)Section 455(4)(a) does not apply to a debt incurred for the supply by a close company of goods or services in the ordinary course of its trade or business unless the credit given exceeds 6 months or is longer than that normally given to the company's customers.
[F1(2A)Section 455 does not apply to a loan or advance made to a trustee of a charitable trust if the loan or advance is applied to the purposes of the charitable trust only.]
(3)Section 455 does not apply to a loan or advance made to—
(a)a director of a close company,
(b)an employee of such a company,
(c)a director of an associated company of such a company, or
(d)an employee of such an associated company,
if conditions A, B and C are met (but see subsection (7)).
(4)Condition A is that—
(a)the amount of the loan or advance does not exceed £15,000, and
(b)that amount does not exceed £15,000 when taken together with any other outstanding loans and advances which were made to the borrower by—
(i)the close company, or
(ii)any of its associated companies.
(5)Condition B is that the borrower works full-time for the close company or any of its associated companies.
(6)Condition C is that the borrower does not have a material interest in the close company or in any of its associated companies.
(7)If the borrower acquires such a material interest at a time when the whole or part of any loan or advance within subsection (3) remains outstanding, the close company is to be treated as making to the borrower at that time a loan or advance of an amount equal to the sum outstanding.
(8)For the meaning of “material interest in a company”, see section 457.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 456(2A) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 51(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2016 (c. 24), s. 51(1)
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