{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-and-corporation-taxes-act-1988/schedule-9/paragraph-30",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/1",
  "legislation_title": "Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-and-corporation-taxes-act-1988",
  "path": "schedule/9/paragraph/30",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "30",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The scheme must provide for the establishment of a body of persons resident in the United Kingdom (“the trustees”)—\n(a) who, out of moneys paid to them by the grantor or, in the case of a group scheme, a participating company, are required by the scheme to acquire shares in respect of which the conditions in paragraphs 10 to 12 and 14 above are fulfilled; and\n(b) who are under a duty to appropriate shares acquired by them to individuals who participate in the scheme, not being individuals who are ineligible by virtue of paragraph 8 or 35 of this Schedule; and\n(c) whose functions with respect to shares held by them are regulated by a trust which is constituted under the law of a part of the United Kingdom and the terms of which are embodied in an instrument which complies with the provisions of paragraphs 31 to 34 below.\n(2) If at any time after the Board have approved the scheme, an alteration is made in the terms of the trust referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(c) above, the approval shall not have effect after the date of the alteration unless the Board have approved the alteration.\n(3) The scheme must provide that the total of the initial market values of the shares appropriated to any one participant in a year of assessment will not exceed the relevant amount.\n(4) In this Part of this Schedule “initial market value”, in relation to a participant’s shares, means the market value of those shares determined—\n(a) except where paragraph (b) below applies, on the date on which the shares were appropriated to him; and\n(b) if the Board and the trustees agree in writing, on or by reference to such earlier date or dates as may be provided for in the agreement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Source—1978 Sch.9 1(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Source—1978 Sch.9 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "Source—1978 Sch.9 1 (4); 1983 s.25(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "Source—1978 s.53(4)"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/1/schedule/9/paragraph/30",
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  },
  "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."
}