Part 8U.K.Oil activities

[F1CHAPTER 9U.K.Supplementary charge: cluster area allowance

Textual Amendments

F1Pt. 8 Ch. 9 inserted (26.3.2015) by Finance Act 2015 (c. 11), Sch. 13 para. 2

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

Cluster area allowanceU.K.

356JFGeneration of cluster area allowanceU.K.

(1)Subsection (2) applies where a company—

(a)is a licensee in a licensed area or sub-area which is wholly or partly included in a cluster area, and

(b)incurs any relievable investment expenditure on or after 3 December 2014 in relation to the cluster area.

(2)The company is to hold an amount of allowance equal to 62.5% of the amount of the expenditure.

Allowance held under this Chapter is called “cluster area allowance”.

(3)For the purposes of this section investment expenditure incurred by a company is “relievable” only if, and so far as, it is incurred for the purposes of oil-related activities (see section 274).

(4)Subsections (1) to (3) are subject to section 356JFA (which prevents expenditure on the acquisition of an asset from being relievable in certain circumstances).

(5)Cluster area allowance is said in this Chapter to be “generated” at the time when the investment expenditure is incurred (see section 356JN) and is referred to as being generated—

(a)“by” the company concerned;

(b)“in” the cluster area concerned.

(6)Where—

(a)investment expenditure is incurred only partly for the purposes of oil-related activities, or

(b)the oil-related activities for the purposes of which investment expenditure is incurred are carried on only partly in relation to a particular cluster area,

the expenditure is to be attributed to the activities or area concerned on a just and reasonable basis.]