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(1)M1Any sum expended in making a payment to the trustees of an approved profit sharing scheme by a company which is in relation to that scheme the grantor or a participating company—
(a)shall be deducted in computing for the purposes of Schedule D the profits or gains of a trade carried on by that company; or
(b)if that company is an investment company or a company in the case of which section 75 applies by virtue of section 76, shall be treated as expenses of management,
if, and only if, one of the conditions in subsection (2) below is fulfilled.
(2)The conditions referred to in subsection (1) above are—
(a)that before the expiry of the relevant period the sum in question is applied by the trustees in the acquisition of shares for appropriation to individuals who are eligible to participate in the scheme by virtue of their being or having been employees or directors of the company making the payment; and
(b)that the sum is necessary to meet the reasonable expenses of the trustees in administering the scheme.
(3)For the purposes of subsection (2)(a) above “the relevant period” means the period of nine months beginning on the day following the end of the period of account in which the sum in question is charged as an expense of the company incurring the expenditure or such longer period as the Board may allow by notice given to that company.
(4)For the purposes of this section, the trustees of an approved profit sharing scheme shall be taken to apply sums paid to them in the order in which the sums are received by them.
(5)In this section—
“approved profit sharing scheme” means a profit sharing scheme approved under Schedule 9; and
“the grantor” and “participating company” have the meaning given by paragraph 1(3) and (4) of that Schedule.
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M1SOURCE-1978 s. 60
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