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372AO. Qualifying lease.

(1) In this section 'market value', in relation to a building, structure or house, means the price which the unencumbered fee simple of the building, structure or house would fetch if sold in the open market in such manner and subject to such conditions as might reasonably be calculated to obtain for the vendor the best price for the building, structure or house, less the part of that price which would be attributable to the acquisition of, or of rights in or over, the land on which the building, structure or house is constructed.

(2) Subject to subsection (4), a lease of a house is a qualifying lease for the purposes of this Chapter where the consideration for the grant of the lease consists -

(a) solely of periodic payments all of which are or are to be treated as rent for the purposes of Chapter 8 of Part 4, or

(b) of payments of the kind mentioned in paragraph (a), together with a payment by means of a premium which -

(i) in the case of the construction of a house, does not exceed

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