Finance (No. 2) Act 1992

39 Extension of relief for private rented housing: property managing companies

Part I of Schedule 4 to the [1988 c. 39.] Finance Act 1988 (extension of business expansion scheme to private rented housing: modifications of the Taxes Act 1988) shall have effect, and be taken always to have had effect, with the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph 11—

“11 (1) For subsection (1) of section 308 (application to subsidiaries) there shall be substituted—

“(1) A qualifying company may, in the relevant period, have one or more subsidiaries if the subsidiary or, as the case may be, each subsidiary is a subsidiary to which subsection (1A) or (1B) below applies.

(1A) This subsection applies to a subsidiary if—

(a) it is a dormant subsidiary or exists wholly, or substantially wholly, for the purpose of carrying on activities which do not include, to any substantial extent, activities which are not qualifying activities, and

(b) the conditions mentioned in subsection (2) below are satisfied in respect of it and, except as provided by subsection (3) below, continue to be satisfied in respect of it until the end of the relevant period.

(1B) This subsection applies to a subsidiary if—

(a) it is a property managing subsidiary, and

(b) reading each reference in subsection (2) below to 90 per cent. as a reference to 51 per cent., the conditions in that subsection are satisfied in respect of it and, except as provided by subsection (3) below, continue to be satisfied in respect of it until the end of the relevant period.”

(2) In subsection (5) of that section, for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted—

“(a) a subsidiary is a property managing subsidiary if it exists wholly, or substantially wholly, for the purpose of holding or managing (or holding and managing) a single block of flats and more than half of those flats are let by the qualifying company or any of its subsidiaries in the course of qualifying activities;”.”