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(1) Where a person carries on as part of a trade—
any oil extraction activities; or
any of the following activities, namely, the acquisition, enjoyment or exploitation of oil rights; or
activities of both those descriptions,
those activities shall be treated [F1for the purposes of the charge of corporation tax on income] as a separate trade, distinct from all other activities carried on by him as part of the trade.
(2)F2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(3)Relief in respect of a loss incurred by a person shall not be given under section [F3393A(1)] against his ring fence profits except to the extent that the loss arises from oil extraction activities or from oil rights.
[F4(4)In any case where—
(a)in any accounting period a company incurs a loss in activities (“separate activities”) which, for that or any subsequent accounting period, are treated by virtue of subsection (1) above as a separate trade for the purposes specified in that subsection, and
(b)in any subsequent accounting period any of its trading income is derived from activities (“related activities”) which are not part of the separate activities but which, apart from subsection (1) above, would together with those activities constitute a single trade,
then, notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) above, the amount of the loss may be set off, in accordance with section 393(1), against so much of its trading income in any subsequent accounting period as is derived from the related activities.]
(5)Subject to subsection (7) below, a capital allowance which is to be given to any person by discharge or repayment of tax shall not to any extent be given effect under [F5section 258 of the Capital Allowances Act] by deduction from or set off against his ring fence income.
(6)Subject to subsection (7) below, a capital allowance which is to be given to any person by discharge or repayment of tax shall not to any extent be given effect under [F6section 259 or 260 of the Capital Allowances Act] by deduction from or set off against his ring fence profits.
(7)Subsection (5) or (6) above shall not apply to a capital allowance which falls to be made to a company for any accounting period in respect of an asset used in the relevant accounting period by a company associated with it and so used in carrying on oil extraction activities. For the purposes of this subsection, the relevant accounting period is that in which the allowance in question first falls to be made to the company (whether or not it can to any extent be given effect in that period under [F7section 259 of the Capital Allowances Act].
(8)On a claim for group relief made by a claimant company in relation to a surrendering company, group relief shall not be allowed against the claimant company’s ring fence profits except to the extent that the claim relates to losses incurred by the surrendering company that arose from oil extraction activities or from oil rights.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 492(1) substituted (6.4.2005 with effect in accordance with s. 883(1) of the amending Act) by Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005 (c. 5), Sch. 1 para. 190(2) (with Sch. 2)
F2S. 492(2) repealed (6.4.2007 with effect in accordance with s. 1034(1) of the repealing Act) by Income Tax Act 2007 (c. 3), Sch. 1 para. 92(2), Sch. 3 Pt. 1 (with Sch. 2)
F3Words in s. 492(3) substituted by Finance Act 1991 (c. 31, SIF 63:1), s. 73(3)(4)(5), Sch. 15 para. 17
F4S. 492(4) substituted (6.4.2007 with effect in accordance with s. 1034(1) of the amending Act) by Income Tax Act 2007 (c. 3), Sch. 1 para. 92(3) (with Sch. 2)
F5Words in s. 492(5) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 579 of the amending Act) by Capital Allowances Act 2001 (c. 2), Sch. 2 para. 41(1)
F6Words in s. 492(6) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 579 of the amending Act) by Capital Allowances Act 2001 (c. 2), Sch. 2 para. 41(2)
F7Words in s. 492(7) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 579 of the amending Act) by Capital Allowances Act 2001 (c. 2), Sch. 2 para. 41(3)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 492(1)(a)(b) applied (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1)(2) of the amending Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), s. 198(5)(b) (with ss. 60, 101(1), 171, 201(3))
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