Housing Act 1974

11 Exclusion of certain disposals of land from tax on chargeable gains. E+W

After section 342 of the M1 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 there shall be inserted the following section:—

“342A Disposals by Housing Corporation and certain housing associations.

(1) In any case where—

(a) the Housing Corporation dispose of any land to a registered housing association, or

(b) a registered housing association disposes of any land to another registered housing association, or

(c) in pursuance of a direction of the Housing Corporation given under Part II of the Housing Act 1974 requiring it to do so, a registered housing association disposes of any of its property, other than land, to another registered housing association, or

(d) a registered housing association or an unregistered self-build society disposes of any land to the Housing Corporation,

both parties to the disposal shall be treated for the purposes of corporation tax in respect of chargeable gains or, as the case may require, capital gains tax as if land or property disposed of were acquired from the Housing Corporation, registered housing association or unregistered self-build society making the disposal for a consideration of such amount as would secure that on the disposal neither a gain nor a loss accrued to the Corporation or, as the case may be, that association or society.

(2) In this section “registered housing association and “self-build society have the same meanings as in Part I of the Housing Act 1974.”

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 The text of Ss. 11, 118(3)(4), Sch. 13 paras. 42(1)(b)(2)(3), 43(1)(a)(c), 43(2)–(4), 44–46 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1. 2. 1991.

Marginal Citations

M1 1970 c. 10.