SCHEDULE 8
Ascertainment of profits
19A
(1)
The Treasury may by order amend paragraph 19 above so as to add to, delete or vary any of the items mentioned in sub-paragraph (6) of that paragraph.
(2)
In this paragraph references to an order are references to an order under sub-paragraph (1) above.
(3)
Subject to sub-paragraphs (4) to (8) below, any amendment or amendments made by virtue of an order shall have effect in relation to the preparation, for the purposes of a scheme, of a profit and loss account in respect of a period beginning on or after the day on which the order comes into force.
(4)
Any amendment or amendments made by virtue of an order shall not have effect in relation to an existing scheme unless, before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the day on which the order comes into force, the scheme is altered to take account of the amendment or amendments.
(5)
Sub-paragraphs (6) to (8) below apply where, before the end of the period mentioned in sub-paragraph (4) above, an existing scheme is altered as mentioned in that sub-paragraph.
(6)
The provision made by the scheme in compliance with paragraph 20(1) below shall not prevent a profit and loss account being prepared in accordance with the alteration.
(7)
Where the distributable pool would but for this sub-paragraph be determined by reference—
(a)
to an amount shown in a profit and loss account prepared in accordance with the altered scheme, and
(b)
to an amount shown in a profit and loss account (“an earlier account”) prepared in accordance with the scheme in a form in which it stood before the alteration,
then, for the purposes of the determination of the pool, the amount shown in the earlier account shall be recalculated using the same method as that used to calculate the amount mentioned in paragraph (a) above.
(8)
The alteration of the existing scheme shall be treated as being within subsection (8) of section 177B.
(9)
An order may include such supplementary, incidental or consequential provisions as appear to the Treasury to be necessary or expedient.
(10)
In this paragraph “an existing scheme”, in relation to an order, means a scheme which, immediately before the day on which the order comes into force, is a registered scheme.