SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 13 Employee share ownership trusts

Securities

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1

Paragraph 9 of Schedule 5 (transfer of securities) shall be amended as follows.

2

In sub-paragraph (1)(b) for “period of seven years” there shall be substituted “ qualifying period ”.

3

After sub-paragraph (2) there shall be inserted—

2A

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) above the qualifying period is—

a

seven years, in the case of trusts established on or before the day on which the Finance Act 1994 was passed;

b

twenty years, in the case of other trusts.