5(1)This paragraph applies where—
(a)a company (in this paragraph referred to as " the link company ") which is a member of a consortium is also a member of a group of companies; and
(b)the link company could (disregarding any deficiency of profits) make a consortium claim in respect of the loss or other amount eligible for relief of a relevant accounting period of a company owned by the consortium.
(2)Subject to sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) below, a company (in this paragraph referred to as a group member ") which is a member of the group referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) above but is not itself a member of the consortium may make any consortium claim which could be made by the link company ; and the fraction which is appropriate under section 259(8) of the Taxes Act where a group member is the claimant company shall be the same as that which would be appropriate if the link company were the claimant company.
(3)A group member may not, by virtue of sub-paragraph (2) above, make a consortium claim in respect of the loss or other amount of any relevant accounting period of a company owned by the consortium unless the claimant company was a member of the group concerned throughout the whole of the accounting period or, as the case may be, each accounting period of the link company which, if that company were making the claim, would be a corresponding accounting period in relation to the relevant accounting period concerned.
(4)The maximum amount of relief which, in the aggregate, may be claimed by group members and the link company by consortium claims relating to the loss or other amount of any relevant accounting period of a company owned by the consortium shall not exceed the relief which could have been claimed by the fink company (disregarding any deficiency of profits) if this paragraph had not been enacted.