Persons to whom this Order applies
5.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below and article 16 below, a taxable person falls within this article if the total amount of tax which he was liable to pay in respect of the prescribed accounting periods the ends of which fell within the period of one year ending on the last day of his last prescribed accounting period ending before 1st June 1993 exceeded £2,000,000.
(2) Where in the year ending 31st May 1993 a prescribed accounting period of the taxable person did not begin on the first day or did not end on the last day of a month, the period of one year shall, for the purpose of this article, be regarded as having comprised those prescribed accounting periods which related to the tax periods ending within the year ending 31st May 1993 to which references are shown in the certificate of registration issued to him.