1155Indirect ownership of ordinary share capitalU.K.
(1)For the purposes of this Chapter ordinary share capital is owned indirectly by a body corporate if it is owned through another body corporate or other bodies corporate.
(2)References in this Chapter to ownership through a body corporate are to be read in accordance with subsections (3) and (4).
(3)Suppose that 3 or more bodies corporate are ordered in a series such that each body in the series (other than the last) owns ordinary share capital of the body immediately below it in the series.
(4)If B is a body that is below, but not immediately below, A in the series, A is said to own ordinary share capital of B through each body corporate that is between A and B in the series.
(5)Sections 1156 and 1157 contain rules for calculating, for the purposes of this Chapter, the amount of a body corporate's ordinary share capital that another body corporate owns—
(a)indirectly, or
(b)partly directly and partly indirectly.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Ss. 1155-1157 applied (with modifications) by 2010 c. 8, s. 464(9) (as inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 5 para. 25(1)-(3) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), Sch. 5 para. 1 (with Sch. 5 paras. 27, 32-34))
C2Ss. 1155-1157 applied by 1992 c. 12, Sch. 7AC para. 3B(3)(4) (as inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 28(7) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), s. 28(2))
C3S. 1155 applied (E.W.) (1.4.2018) by Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Act 2017 (anaw 1), s. 81(2)(3), Sch. 16 para. 3(5)(b); S.I. 2018/34, art. 3