{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1996/schedule-14/paragraph-64",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1996/schedule-14/paragraph-64.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/8",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1996",
  "path": "schedule/14/paragraph/64",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "64",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 251 of that Act (exclusion for debts that are not debts on a security), after subsection (6) there shall be inserted the following subsections—\n“(7) Where any instrument specified in subsection (8) below is not a security (as defined in section 132), that instrument shall be deemed to be such a security for the purposes of this section, other than the purposes of determining what is or is not an allowable loss in any case.\n(8) The instruments mentioned in subsection (7) above are—\n(a) any instrument that would fall to be treated for the purposes of this Act as an asset representing a loan relationship of a company if the provisions of sections 92(4) and 93(4) of the Finance Act 1996 (convertible securities and assets linked to the value of chargeable assets) were disregarded; or\n(b) any instrument which (even apart from those provisions) is not a loan relationship of a company but which would be a relevant discounted security for the purposes of Schedule 13 to that Act if paragraph 3(2)(c) of that Schedule (excluded indexed securities) were omitted.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/8/schedule/14/paragraph/64",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:32:25.231034+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}