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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007/section-259",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007/section-259.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/3",
  "legislation_title": "Income Tax Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007",
  "path": "section/259",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "259",
  "heading": "Venture capital trusts and VCT approvals",
  "text": "(1) In this Part “venture capital trust” means a company which—\n(a) is not a close company, and\n(b) is for the time being approved for the purposes of this Part by the Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (see Chapter 3),\nand “VCT” means a venture capital trust.\n(2) In this Part “VCT approval” means an approval of a company for the purposes of this Part.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/3/section/259",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:03.599581+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."
}