SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 13U.K. Employee share ownership trusts

SecuritiesU.K.

7(1)Paragraph 9 of Schedule 5 (transfer of securities) shall be amended as follows.U.K.

(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.