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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 6 April 1999 - onwards
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69. Employee share schemes.

(1) The Principal Act is hereby amended -

(a) in Chapter 1 of Part 17 -

(i) in section 510 by the insertion of the following after subsection (5):

"(5A)

(a) This subsection shall apply where -

(i) the trustees of an approved profit sharing scheme make an appropriation of shares, to which section 510(3) applies, to a participant,

(ii) the shares concerned were transferred to the trustees of the approved scheme concerned by the trustees of an employee share ownership trust to which section 519 applies, and

(iii) the shares were transferred at a date later than that on which the shares could have first been transferred in accordance with the terms of the employee share ownership trust deed or any other document but, for whatever reason, were not transferred on that earlier date.

(b) Where this subsection applies, the appropriation to the participant concerned shall, for the purposes of capital gains tax, be deemed to have taken place on the day following the day on which those shares could have first been transferred by the trustees of the employee share ownership trust concerned, in accordance with the terms of the trust deed under which that trust was established or any other document.",