573.This section allows expenditure incurred before 2 July 2005 on the first acquisition of a qualifying film with total production expenditure of £15 million or less and intended for commercial release in cinemas to be written off in full in the period in which it is incurred. It is based on section 42 of F(No 2)A 1992, section 48 of F(No 2)A 1997 and sections 99(1) and 101 of FA 2002.
574.Subsection (3) provides that a deduction for acquisition expenditure allocated to the relevant period is subject to the application of “any prohibitive rule”. “Any prohibitive rule” is defined in section 130(7) of this Act as any provision of the Income Tax Acts which prohibits, or restricts the extent of, a deduction in calculating the profits of a trade.