Part 5 U.K.Group relief

Chapter 6 U.K.Equity holders and profits or assets available for distribution

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. 5 Ch. 6 applied (with effect in accordance with s. 381(1) of the amending Act) by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (c. 8), ss. 241(6), 381(1) (with Sch. 9 paras. 1-9, 22)

C2 Pt. 5 Ch. 6 applied (with effect in accordance with s. 381(1) of the amending Act) by Taxation (International and Other Provisions) Act 2010 (c. 8), ss. 345(7), 381(1) (with Sch. 9 paras. 1-9, 22, 31)

C3 Pt. 5 Ch. 6 applied (with modifications) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), s. 252(10) (as substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 1184(1) of the amending Act) by 2010 c. 4, s. 1184(1), Sch. 1 para. 252 (with Sch. 2))

C4 Pt. 5 Ch. 6 applied (with modifications) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), s. 170(8) (as substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 1184(1) of the amending Act) by 2010 c. 4, s. 1184(1), Sch. 1 para. 242(4) (with Sch. 2))

C5 Pt. 5 Ch. 6 applied (with modifications) by Finance Act 2009 (c. 4), s. 772(1)(2) (as substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 1184(1) of the amending Act) by 2010 c. 4, s. 1184(1), Sch. 1 para. 646 (with Sch. 2))

C6 Pt. 5 Ch. 6 applied (with modifications) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), Sch. 7AC para. 8(2) (as substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 1184(1) of the amending Act) by 2010 c. 4, s. 1184(1), Sch. 1 para. 269(3) (with Sch. 2))

C7 Pt. 5 Ch. 6 applied by Capital Allowances Act 2001 (c. 2), ss. 212G(5), 212H(2) (as inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 4 para. 5, 6 of the amending Act) by 2010 c. 13, Sch. 4 para. 2)

Company's entitlement to profits or assets available for distribution: supplementary U.K.

[F1 174BCertain mortgage arrangements not within section 173 U.K.

(1) Arrangements entered into by a company which, apart from this section, would be option arrangements within section 173 are not to be treated as such arrangements if and so long as—

(a) the arrangements are a mortgage, secured by way of shares or securities in the company, which on default or the happening of any other event allows the mortgagee to exercise its rights against the mortgagor, and

(b) the mortgagee has not exercised its rights against the mortgagor.

(2) This section does not apply if the mortgagee—

(a) possesses greater rights in respect of the shares or securities which are the subject of the mortgage than it requires to protect its interest as mortgagee, or

(b) could alone or together with connected persons dictate the terms or timing of the default or the happening of any other event which allows it to exercise its rights against the mortgagor.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)(b) the mortgagee is not by reason only of the mortgage connected with a company whose shares or securities are the subject of the mortgage.

(4) In this section—

• “connected” has the same meaning as in section 1122;

• “mortgage” means—

  (a)

  in England and Wales, and Northern Ireland, any legal or equitable charge, and

  (b)

  in Scotland, any right in security,

• (and section 1166(1) (definition of “mortgage”: Scotland) does not apply).]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 174A, 174B inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 15 of the amending S.I.) by The Enactment of Extra-Statutory Concessions Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/266), arts. 1, 14(1)