Finance Act 1995

150 Northern Ireland transfer: associated bodies

(1) Section 11 of the [1954 c. 23 (N.I.).] Finance Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (relief from stamp duty in case of transfer of property between associated bodies corporate) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (2)(c)(iii) for the words from “a change” to “third body corporate” there shall be substituted “the transferor or a third body corporate ceasing to be the transferee’s parent”.

(3) The following subsections shall be substituted for subsection (3)—

“(3) For the purposes of this section a body corporate is associated with another body corporate at a particular time if at that time one is the parent of the other or another body corporate is the parent of each.

(3AA) For the purposes of this section one body corporate is the parent of another at a particular time if at that time the first body is beneficial owner of not less than 75 per cent. of the ordinary share capital of the second body.”

(4) In subsection (3A) for the words “paragraphs (i) and (ii) of subsection (3)” there shall be substituted “subsection (3AA)”, and the words from “with the substitution” to the end shall be omitted.

(5) The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (3A)—

“(3AB) In this section “ordinary share capital”, in relation to a body corporate, means all the issued share capital (by whatever name called) of the body corporate, other than capital the holders of which have a right to a dividend at a fixed rate but have no other right to share in the profits of the body corporate.”

(6) This section shall apply in relation to instruments executed on or after the day on which this Act is passed.