Finance Act 2000

100 (1) For the purposes of Chapter I of Part IV of the [1992 c. 12.] Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (identification of shares etc.) a participant’s plan shares are treated, so long as they are subject to the plan, as of a different class from any shares (which would otherwise be treated as of the same class) that are not plan shares.

(2) For the purposes of that Chapter, any shares transferred to the trustees of the plan trust by a qualifying transfer that have not been awarded to participants under the plan shall (notwithstanding that they would otherwise fall to be treated as of the same class) be treated as of a different class from any shares held by the trustees that were not transferred to them by a qualifying transfer.

(3) In sub-paragraph (2) “qualifying transfer” has the meaning given in paragraph 76 (acquisition by trustees of shares from employee share ownership trust).