Finance Act 1974

[F1 4 (1) In the case of a relevant chargeable building, paragraph 3 of this Schedule shall not have effect with respect to an interest which a person has in the relevant land on the material date, being either— U.K.

(a) a freehold or leasehold interest which on the material date is subject to a lease or an agreement to grant a lease, being (in either case) a lease of which the term will expire within the period of twenty-five years from the commencement of the relevant development; or

(b) an interest under an agreement for a lease which on the material date is subject to an agreement to grant a lease of which the term will expire within the said period.

(2) The provisions of subsections (1)(b), (c) and (d) and (2) to (3A) of section 84 of the Taxes Act shall have effect in ascertaining for the purposes of this paragraph when the term of a lease or prospective lease will expire as they have effect in ascertaining the duration of a lease for the purposes of sections 80 to 82 of that Act, but as if—

(a) in the said subsection (1)(b), after the word “premium” there were inserted the words “(if any)”;

(b) in the said subsection (2), for the words from “the time of the grant of the lease” to “entered into” there were substituted the words “the material date referred to in paragraph 4(1) of Schedule 9 to the Finance Act 1974”;

(c) in the said subsection (3A), the reference to the provisions of subsections (1) to (3) of the said section 84 were a reference to those provisions as applied by this paragraph;

(d) in the case of a prospective lease, references to what its terms do were references to what, in accordance with the agreement under which the lease is to be granted, its terms are to do.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 9 repealed by Finance Act 1985 (c. 54, SIF 63:1), s. 98(6)and Sch. 27 Part Xin relation to disposals of interests in land taking place on or after 19March Finance Act 1985 (c. 54, SIF 63:1),but without affecting the construction of 1979 (C) Sch.5 para. 9(5).