{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2000/schedule-15/paragraph-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2000/schedule-15/paragraph-36.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/17",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2000",
  "path": "schedule/15/paragraph/36",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) All of the money raised by the issuance of the relevant issue of shares must have been employed wholly for the purposes of a relevant trade not later than the time determined in accordance with sub-paragraph (1B).\n(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(1B) The time referred to in sub-paragraph (1) is—\n(a) the end of the period of two years beginning with the issue of the shares, or\n(b) where the issuing company or a qualifying 90% subsidiary of that company had not begun to carry on the relevant trade at the time the shares were issued, the end of the period of two years beginning when the issuing company or a qualifying 90% subsidiary of that company begins to carry on the relevant trade.\n(1C) Sub-paragraph (1) is subject to sub-paragraph (5).\n(2) For the purposes of this paragraph—\n“the relevant issue of shares” means the issue of shares in the issuing company which includes the relevant shares;\n“relevant trade” means a trade by reference to which the issuing company meets the trading activities requirement.\n(3) In this paragraph references to employing money for the purposes of a trade (except where the carrying on of the trade is within paragraph 25(2)) include references to employing it for the purpose of preparing to carry on the trade.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (2) the reference to a trade by reference to which the trading activities requirement is met includes, where the carrying on of that trade is within paragraph 25(2), a reference to any qualifying trade—\n(a) which is derived or benefits from that trade, and\n(b) which is carried on—\n(i) by the issuing company, or\n(ii) if that company is a parent company, by that company or a qualifying 90% subsidiary of that company.\n(5) Where—\n(a) any of the money raised by the issuance of the relevant issue of shares is employed for the purposes of a trade that is a relevant trade by virtue of sub-paragraph (4), and\n(b) that trade was not being carried on by the issuing company, or a qualifying 90% subsidiary of that company, at the time the shares were issued,\nthe requirement of sub-paragraph (1) ... is not met unless that money is so employed before the third anniversary of the issue date.\n(6) For the purposes of this paragraph money is not treated as employed otherwise than wholly for the purposes of a trade if the only amount employed for other purposes is an amount which is not a significant amount.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 36(1)-(1C) substituted (11.5.2001 with effect as mentioned in Sch. 16 para. 5(3) of the amending Act) for Sch. 15 para. 36(1) by 2001 c. 9, s. 64, Sch. 16 para. 5(1)(3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 15 para. 36(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 8 para. 11 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 8 para. 8(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 15 para. 36(1A) omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 8 para. 11 of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 8 para. 8(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 15 para. 36(1B) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 8 para. 11 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 8 para. 8(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 15 para. 36(1B)(b) substituted (22.7.2004) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 20 para. 15 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 20 para. 11(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 15 para. 36(1B)(b) substituted (22.7.2004) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 20 para. 15 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 20 para. 11(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 15 para. 36(1C) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 8 para. 11 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 8 para. 8(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 15 para. 36(4)(b)(ii) substituted (22.7.2004) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 20 para. 15 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 20 para. 11(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 15 para 36(5)(a) substituted (11.5.2001 with effect as mentioned in Sch. 16 para. 5(3) of the amending Act) by 2001 c. 9, s. 64, Sch. 16 paras. 5(2)(a)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 15 para. 36(5)(b) substituted (22.7.2004) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 20 para. 15 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 20 para. 11(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 15 para. 36(5) omitted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 8 para. 11 of the amending Act) by virtue of Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 8 para. 8(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "asp/2001/8",
      "affecting_title": "Regulation of Care (Scotland) Act 2001"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:00.128981+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."
}