Finance Act 1987

12 (1) In any case where— U.K.

(a) an amount of expenditure is allowed as qualifying for supplement as regards the field of origin, and

(b) one or more elections is made in respect of that expenditure, and

(c) a notice of variation is served under paragraph 9 of Schedule 5 to the principal Act, and

(d) on that notice of variation becoming effective for the purposes of the said paragraph 9, the amount of the expenditure referred to in paragraph (a) above is taken for the purposes of Part I of the principal Act as having been increased,

an election may be made in respect of the amount of the increase as if it were a separate amount of expenditure.

(2) In the circumstances referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above an election may be made by the participator in question at any time before—

(a) notice is given to the participator or, as the case may be, the associated company of the making of that assessment or determination or that amendment of an assessment or determination which takes account of the increase resulting from the notice of variation; or

(b) if it is later, the expiry of the period of thirty days beginning on the date on which the notice of variation becomes effective for the purposes of paragraph 9 of Schedule 5 to the principal Act.

(3) Where an election is made by a participator in the circumstances referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above—

(a) paragraph 1(2)(c) above shall have effect as if it referred to the notice of variation;

(b) subsection (4)(a) of the principal section shall not apply; and

(c) the expenditure allowable as a result of the election shall be taken into account in the first assessment to tax or determination relating to a chargeable period of the receiving field which is made on or in relation to the participator after the date of the decision to which the notice of variation relates.

(4) Such amendments of assessments to tax or determinations (relating to the field of origin or the receiving field) shall be made as may be necessary in consequence of the preceding provisions of this paragraph.