Regulation 3 Timing: becoming a RIF
(1)
Where a co-ownership scheme meets, or is treated as meeting, the qualifying conditions on the date specified in the entry notice, the scheme is a RIF from that date.
(2)
A co-ownership scheme that is not a scheme to which regulation 28 applies may begin operating as a RIF and will be treated as a RIF for the purposes of these Regulations, providing that—
(a)
an entry notice is submitted to HMRC by the operator of the scheme within 3 months of the day on which the scheme began to operate as a RIF, and
(b)
subject to any declaration the operator of the scheme intends to make under regulation 9 or 13, the scheme meets the qualifying conditions on the day it begins to operate as a RIF.