Finance Act 1994

Acquisitions on which relief availableU.K.

7U.K.For section 164A(8) there is substituted—

(8)For the purposes of this section, a person who acquires any eligible shares in a qualifying company shall be regarded as acquiring a qualifying investment unless, where the asset disposed of consisted of shares in or other securities of any company (“the initial holding”), the qualifying company—

(a)is the company in which the initial holding subsisted, or

(b)is a company that was, at the time of the disposal of the initial holding, or is, at the time of the acquisition of the qualifying investment, a member of the same group of companies as the company in which the initial holding subsisted.