Finance Act 1980

119 Transfer of assets of public corporations

(1) Subject to subsection (2) below, the successor company in which the property, rights, liabilities and obligations of the British Airways Board are vested by any Act passed in the same Session as this Act shall be treated for all purposes of corporation tax and development land tax as if it were the same person as the British Airways Board; and the successor company to which the undertaking of the National Freight Corporation is transferred by any such Act shall be treated for those purposes as if it were the same person as the National Freight Corporation.

(2) A successor company shall not by virtue of subsection (1) above be regarded as a body falling within section 272(5) of the Taxes Act (bodies established for carrying on industries or undertakings under national ownership or control) or subsection (10) of section 23 of the [1976 c. 24.] Development Land Tax Act 1976 (statutory undertakers); and subsection (1) above shall not be regarded as preventing the vesting in a successor company of an interest of the British Airways Board or the National Freight Corporation constituting a disposal for the purposes of the said section 23.

(3) The transfer by any such Act as is mentioned in subsection (1) above from the British Airways Board to the successor company of liability for any loan made to the Board shall not affect any direction in respect of the loan which has been given by the Treasury under section 416 of the Taxes Act (income tax exemption for interest on foreign currency securities).

(4) The fact that the Secretary of State has power to give directions to the National Enterprise Board, the Scottish Development Agency or the Welsh Development Agency as to the making of a transfer of securities or other property held by them shall not be regarded as constituting an arrangement within the meaning of section 92(9) of the [1972 c. 41.] Finance Act 1972 or section 29 of the [1973 c. 51.] Finance Act 1973 (which deny relief for advance corporation tax and losses within a group where certain arrangements exist).