SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 5Enterprise management incentives
Part 3Qualifying companies
19Excluded activities: receipt of royalties or licence fees
1
This paragraph supplements paragraph 16(e) (receipt of royalties or licence fees).
2
If the requirement of sub-paragraph (3) is met, a trade is not to be regarded as consisting in the carrying of excluded activities within paragraph 16(e) as a result only of its consisting to a substantial extent in the receiving of royalties or licence fees.
3
The requirement of this sub-paragraph is that the royalties or licence fees (or all of them except for a part that is not substantial in terms of value) are attributable to the exploitation of relevant intangible assets.
4
For this purpose a “relevant intangible asset” is an intangible asset the whole or greater part of which (in terms of value) has been created—
a
by the company carrying on the trade, or
b
by a company which, for the whole of the period during which it created the asset, was—
i
the parent company of the company carrying on the trade, or
ii
a qualifying subsidiary of that parent company.
5
In the case of an intangible asset which is intellectual property, any reference in sub-paragraph (4) to the creation of the asset by a company is to its creation in circumstances in which the right to exploit it vests in the company (either alone or jointly with others).
6
In sub-paragraph (5) “intellectual property” means—
a
any patent, trade mark, registered design, copyright, design right, performer’s right or plant breeder’s right; or
b
any rights under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom which correspond or are similar to those falling within paragraph (a).
7
In this paragraph “intangible asset” means any asset which falls to be treated as an intangible asset in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice.