Part 4Property income

Chapter 6Commercial letting of furnished holiday accommodation

Definition

267Meaning of “qualifying holiday accommodation”

1

Accommodation which is let by a company during an accounting period is “qualifying holiday accommodation” for the accounting period if the availability, letting and pattern of occupation conditions are met.

2

The availability condition is that, during the relevant period, the accommodation is available for commercial letting as holiday accommodation to the public generally for at least F1210 days.

3

The letting condition is that, during the relevant period, the accommodation is commercially let as holiday accommodation to members of the public for at least F2105 days.

4

For the purposes of the letting condition, a letting of accommodation for a period of longer-term occupation (see subsection (6)) is not a letting of it as holiday accommodation.

5

The pattern of occupation condition is that, during the relevant period, not more than 155 days fall during periods of longer-term occupation.

6

For the purposes of this section a “period of longer-term occupation” is a continuous period of more than 31 days during which the accommodation is in the same occupation otherwise than because of circumstances that are not normal.