SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Chargeable gains: options

Part 2Miscellaneous amendments relating to share options etc

Shares acquired on same day: election for alternative treatment

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1

Section 105A of TCGA 1992 is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (1) (cases in which subsection (2) applies) in paragraph (b) (some of the acquired shares to be approved-scheme shares) for sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) substitute—

i

the exercise of a qualifying option within the meaning given by section 527(4) of ITEPA 2003 (enterprise management incentives) in circumstances where section 530 or 531 of that Act (exercise of option to acquire shares) applies, or

ii

the exercise of an option to which Chapter 7 or 8 of Part 7 of that Act (approved share option schemes) applies in circumstances where section 519(1) or 524(1) of that Act applies.