Part VI Companies, oil, insurance etc.
Chapter II Oil and mining industries
Oil exploration and exploitation
198 Replacement of business assets used in connection with oil fields.
1
If the consideration which a person obtains on a material disposal is applied, in whole or in part, as mentioned in subsection (1) of section 152 or 153, that section shall not apply unless the new assets are taken into use, and used only, for the purposes of the ring fence trade.
2
Subsection (1) above has effect notwithstanding subsection (8) of section 152.
3
Where section 152 or 153 applies in relation to any of the consideration on a material disposal, the asset which constitutes the new assets for the purposes of that section shall be conclusively presumed to be a depreciating asset, and section 154 shall have effect accordingly, except that—
a
the reference in subsection (2)(b) of that section to a trade carried on by the claimant shall be construed as a reference solely to his ring fence trade; and
b
subsections (4) to (7) of that section shall be omitted.
4
In any case where sections 152 to 154 have effect in accordance with subsections (1) to (3) above, the operation of section 175 shall be modified as follows—
a
only those members of a group which actually carry on a ring fence trade shall be treated for the purposes of those sections as carrying on a single trade which is a ring fence trade; and
b
only those activities which, in relation to each individual member of the group, constitute its ring fence trade shall be treated as forming part of that single trade.
5
In this section—
a
“material disposal” has the meaning assigned to it by section 197; and
b
“ring fence trade” means a trade consisting of either or both of the activities mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) of section 492 of the Taxes Act.