SCHEDULE 33Venture capital trusts
Part 1Venture capital trusts: winding up
Provision in respect of periods before and after winding-up
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(1)
Any power under paragraphs 2 to 5 to make provision in relation to a VCT-in-liquidation includes power to make corresponding or similar provision in relation to—
(a)
a company for whose winding up an application has been made to a court and which is not a VCT-in-liquidation but would be if, at the time that application was made, the court had ordered the company’s winding-up to commence at that time;
(b)
a company that has been a VCT-in-liquidation but is no longer a VCT-in-liquidation because it has been wound up.
(2)
For the purposes of making provision in reliance on sub-paragraph (1), references in paragraphs 2 to 5 (however expressed) to a VCT-in-liquidation’s winding-up, or to the commencement or ending of its winding-up, may be taken to be references to, or to the commencement or ending of, the extension period for a company to which sub-paragraph (1) applies.
(3)
In this paragraph—
“the extension period”—
(a)
in relation to a company to which sub-paragraph (1)(a) applies, means the period beginning with the making of the application and ending with the earlier of its final determination and the company becoming a company that is being wound up, and
(b)
in relation to company to which sub-paragraph (1)(b) applies, means the period between the end of the company’s winding-up and the company’s dissolution;
“prescribed” means specified by, or determined under, regulations.