83 Connected persons etc.U.K.
(1)For the purposes of this Chapter, where a person acquires shares or an interest in shares in a company in pursuance of a right conferred on him or opportunity offered to him as a person connected with a director or employee of that or any other company, the shares or interest shall be deemed to be acquired by the director or employee.
(2)For the purposes of this Chapter, where a person who acquires shares or an interest in shares disposes of the shares or interest otherwise than by a bargain at arm’s length with a person who is not connected with him, he shall be deemed to continue to have a beneficial interest in the shares until there is a disposal of the shares or interest by such a bargain.
(3)Subsection (2) above shall not apply where shares, or an interest in shares, in a company are disposed of to the company in accordance with the terms on which the acquisition was made.
(4)Where a person who has made an acquisition as mentioned in subsection (1) above receives a benefit in the circumstances described in section 80 above, the benefit shall be treated for the purposes of that section as received by the person deemed by that subsection to have made the acquisition; and where at a time when a person is deemed by subsection (2) above to continue to have a beneficial interest in shares another person receives a benefit in such circumstances, the benefit shall be treated for those purposes as received by him.