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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 5Employee Share Ownership Trusts

Rules about acquisition etc.

11(1)The trust deed must provide that, for the purposes of the deed, the trustees—

(a)acquire securities when they become entitled to them;

(b)transfer securities to another person when that other becomes entitled to them;

(c)retain securities if they remain entitled to them.

(2)But if the deed provides as mentioned in paragraph 8 above, it must provide for the following exceptions to any rule which is included in it and conforms with sub-paragraph (1)(a) above, namely, that—

(a)if securities are issued to the trustees in exchange in circumstances mentioned in section 85(1) of the [1979 c. 14.] Capital Gains Tax Act 1979, they shall be treated as having acquired them when they became entitled to the securities for which they are exchanged;

(b)if the trustees become entitled to securities as a result of a reorganisation, they shall be treated as having acquired them when they became entitled to the original shares which those securities represent (construing “reorganisation” and “original shares” in accordance with section 77 of that Act).

(3)The trust deed must provide that—

(a)if the trustees agree to take a transfer of securities, for the purposes of the deed they become entitled to them when the agreement is made and not on a later transfer made pursuant to the agreement;

(b)if the trustees agree to transfer securities to another person, for the purposes of the deed the other person becomes entitled to them when the agreement is made and not on a later transfer made pursuant to the agreement.