# Finance Act 2000, Paragraph 22

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) A qualifying ship that begins to be used for non-qualifying purposes ceases to be a qualifying ship when it begins to be so used, subject to the following provisions.
(2) If—
(a) a company operates a ship throughout an accounting period of the company, and
(b) in that period the ship is used for non-qualifying purposes on not more than 30 days,
that use shall be disregarded in determining whether the ship is a qualifying ship at any time during that period.
(3) In the case of an accounting period shorter than a year, the figure of 30 days in sub-paragraph (2) shall be proportionately reduced.
(4) If a company operates a ship during part only of an accounting period of the company, sub-paragraph (2) has effect as if for “30 days", or the number of days substituted by sub-paragraph (3), there were substituted the number of days that bear to the length of that part of the accounting period the same proportion that 30 days does to a year.
(5) In this paragraph references to use for non-qualifying purposes are to—
(a) use for an activity other than any of the activities mentioned in paragraph 19(1)(a) to (d), or
(b) use as a vessel of a kind excluded by paragraph 20 from being a qualifying ship.
(6) This paragraph does not apply for the purposes of sub-paragraphs (2) to (5) of paragraph 20A (qualifying dredgers and tugs).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/17/schedule/22/paragraph/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2000/schedule-22/paragraph-22
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