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80For the purpose of determining whether shares or securities are to be regarded as comprised in a company’s qualifying holdings, section 302 applies in relation to shares or securities issued before 17 March 2004 with the following modifications—
(a)the substitution for subsection (2)(a) of—
“(a)the relevant company, or another of its subsidiaries, possesses at least 75% of the issued share capital of, and at least 75% of the voting power in, the subsidiary,
(aa)the relevant company, or another of its subsidiaries, would in the event of a winding up of the subsidiary, or in any other circumstances, be beneficially entitled to receive at least 75% of the assets of the subsidiary which would then be available for distribution to the equity holders of the subsidiary,
(ab)the relevant company, or another of its subsidiaries, is beneficially entitled to at least 75% of any profits of the subsidiary which are available for distribution to the equity holders of the subsidiary,”,
(b)in subsection (2)(c), the substitution for “either of the conditions in paragraphs (a) and (b)” of “any of the conditions in paragraphs (a), (aa), (ab) and (b)”,
(c)in subsection (3), the omission of “or any other company” and the substitution for paragraphs (a) and (b) of “is for genuine commercial reasons, and not part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose or one of the main purposes of which is the avoidance of tax”,
(d)the omission of subsection (4),
(e)in subsection (5), the substitution for paragraphs (a) and (b) of “is to be for genuine commercial reasons, and not part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose or one of the main purposes of which is the avoidance of tax”,
(f)after subsection (5) the insertion of—
“(6)For the purposes of this section the persons who are equity holders of a subsidiary, and the percentage of the assets of the subsidiary to which an equity holder would be entitled, is to be determined in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 18 to ICTA, taking—
(a)references in paragraph 3 to the first company as references to the equity holder, and
(b)references to a winding up as including references to any other circumstances in which assets of the subsidiary are available for distribution to its equity holders.”
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