Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 (c. 1)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4 U.K. Approved CSOP schemes

Part 3 U.K. Eligibility of individuals to participate in scheme

The employment requirement U.K.

8 (1) The scheme must ensure that an individual is not eligible to be granted share options under the scheme at a particular time unless the individual is then a full-time director or a qualifying employee of— U.K.

(a) the scheme organiser, or

(b) in the case of a group scheme, a constituent company.

(2) A “qualifying employee”, in relation to a company, means an employee of the company other than one who is a director of—

(a) the company, or

(b) in the case of a group scheme, a constituent company.