Part VI Companies, oil, insurance etc.

Chapter II Oil and mining industries

Oil exploration and exploitation

195FF1Reimbursed expenditure

1

This section applies if—

a

expenditure is incurred by company A or company B (see section 195A) on a licence disposed of by it under a licence-consideration swap or mixed-consideration swap,

b

the expenditure is incurred before the disposal,

c

the expenditure falls within section 38(1)(b), and

d

the expenditure is reimbursed or effectively reimbursed (whether by way of adjustment of the non-licence consideration (if any) or otherwise) by the company (“the other company”) to whom the disposal is made (whether before, on or after the date of the disposal).

2

The expenditure is to be treated for the purposes of this Act as expenditure —

a

incurred by the other company on the licence immediately after the disposal, and

b

which falls within section 38(1)(b).