Section 402: Pre-trading expenditure on plant or machinery
1387.This section is based on section 106 and part of section 156 of CAA 1990. It provides the only instance in which expenditure on plant or machinery can be qualifying expenditure under this Part. Such plant or machinery must have been sold, demolished, destroyed or abandoned before the person starts a mineral extraction trade. Where the plant or machinery is still owned when the trade starts relief is given under Part 2. See section 161.
1388.The section limits the qualifying expenditure if there are any receipts from the sale, demolition, destruction or abandonment of the plant or machinery before the trade starts. It also limits qualifying expenditure if mineral exploration and access ceases at the source concerned before the trade starts.
1389.There is a minor change. Subsection (5)(c) provides for a “relevant receipt” in relation to the abandonment of certain plant or machinery. Section 156 of CAA 1990 does not give an amount in respect of the abandonment of plant or machinery. This follows the change made in relation to section 61(2) and provides for the “relevant receipt” in such a case to be the insurance money or other compensation received. See Change 10 in Annex 1.
