Section 585: Loan relationships with embedded derivatives
1546.This section treats the embedded derivative or embedded derivatives in a company’s loan relationship as relevant contracts. It is based on section 94A of FA 1996.
1547.It applies if a loan relationship is treated under generally accepted accounting practice as divided between rights and liabilities under one or more derivative financial instruments or equity instruments (the embedded derivative(s)) and the remaining rights and liabilities which by themselves constitute a loan relationship.
1548.For the meaning of “equity instrument”, see section 710 (that is, it has the meaning it has for accounting purposes). It is defined in paragraph 11 of International Accounting Standard 32 as follows: “an equity instrument is any contract that evidences a residual interest in the assets of an entity after deducting all of its liabilities”.
1549.Subsection (4) is a signpost to section 415 in Part 5 (loan relationships) which deals with the remaining rights and liabilities which by themselves constitute a loan relationship.
1550.Subsection (5) includes a signpost to section 416 which provides for a company to elect that certain of its loan relationships shall be split as mentioned in section 415 and this section, if they would not be so split under the accounting practice the company uses.