179 Equipment lessor has right to sever fixture that is not part of buildingU.K.
(1)The conditions referred to in section 177(1)(a)(ii) are that—
(a)the plant or machinery becomes a fixture by being fixed to land that is neither a building nor part of a building,
(b)the equipment lessee has an interest in the land when taking possession of the plant or machinery under the equipment lease,
(c)under the terms of the equipment lease, the equipment lessor is entitled to sever the plant or machinery, at the end of the period for which it is leased, from the land to which it is fixed at that time,
(d)under the terms of the equipment lease, the equipment lessor will own the plant or machinery on its severance in accordance with the equipment lease,
(e)the nature of the plant or machinery and the way in which it is fixed to land are such that its use on one set of premises does not, to any material extent, prevent it from being used, once severed, for the same purposes on a different set of premises,
(f)the equipment lease is one which under [F1generally accepted accounting practice] falls (or would fall) to be treated in the accounts of the equipment lessor as an operating lease, and
(g)the equipment lease is not for the lease of the plant or machinery for use in a dwelling-house.
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Textual Amendments
F1 Words in s. 179(1)(f) substituted (24.7.2002) by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23) , s. 103(4)(g)
F2S. 179(2) repealed (with effect as mentioned in s. 107 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2002 (c. 23), s. 141, Sch. 40 Pt. 3(16)