Modification of section 485 of Taxes Act in relation to certain sales to or by petroleum companies
5Where any property is sold and either the buyer or the seller is a petroleum company or both are petroleum companies, then if—
(a)the sale is part of a transaction or series of transactions (whether or not between the same persons) and its terms are affected by those of the remainder of the transaction or transactions ; or
(b)what is sold is petroleum extracted under rights exercisable by a company other than the buyer, and not less than 20 per cent, of that company's ordinary share capital was at the time of the sale owned directly or indirectly by one or more of the following, that is to say the buyer and any companies associated with the buyer,
section 485 of the Taxes Act shall apply in relation to the sale as if in both subsection (1) and subsection (2) of that section paragraph (a) were omitted.