Part 4Loss relief
Chapter 2Trade losses
Restriction on sideways relief for specific trades
80Ring fence income
(1)
This section applies if—
(a)
a person has income arising from oil extraction activities or oil rights (“ring fence income”), and
(b)
the person makes a loss in any trade.
(2)
Sideways relief for the loss is not to be given against the person’s ring fence income except so far as the loss arises from oil extraction activities or oil rights.
(3)
“Oil extraction activities” and “oil rights” have the same meaning as in Chapter 5 of Part 12 of ICTA (see section 502 of that Act).