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(1)This section applies where the issuing company—
(a)is a wholly-owned subsidiary of another company (“the holding company”), and
(b)allots shares to the holding company or to another wholly-owned subsidiary of the holding company in consideration for the transfer to the issuing company of assets other than cash, being assets of any company (“the transferor company”) which is a member of the group of companies which comprises the holding company and all its wholly-owned subsidiaries.
(2)Where the shares in the issuing company allotted in consideration for the transfer are issued at a premium, the issuing company is not required by section 130 to transfer any amount in excess of the minimum premium value to the share premium account.
(3)In subsection (2), “ ” means the amount (if any) by which the base value of the consideration for the shares allotted exceeds the aggregate nominal value of those shares.
(4)For the purposes of subsection (3), the base value of the consideration for the shares allotted is the amount by which the base value of the assets transferred exceeds the base value of any liabilities of the transferor company assumed by the issuing company as part of the consideration for the assets transferred.
(5)For the purposes of subsection (4)—
(a)the base value of the assets transferred is to be taken as—
(i)the cost of those assets to the transferor company, or
(ii)the amount at which those assets are stated in the transferor company’s accounting records immediately before the transfer,
whichever is the less; and
(b)the base value of the liabilities assumed is to be taken as the amount at which they are stated in the transferor company’s accounting records immediately before the transfer.
(6)The relief allowed by this section does not apply (subject to the next subsection) if the issue of shares took place before the date of the coming into force of the M1Companies (Share Premium Account) Regulations 1984 (which were made on 21st December 1984).
(7)To the extent that the relief allowed by this section would have been allowed by section 38 of the M2Companies Act 1981 as originally enacted (the text of which section is set out in Schedule 25 to this Act), the relief applies where the issue of shares took place before the date of the coming into force of those Regulations, but not if the issue took place before 4th February 1981.
(8)Section 131 does not apply in a case falling within this section.
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