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Section 236G Relinquishment of employment rights is not disposal of an assetF1

United Kingdom

(1)

This section applies where an individual has acquired shares in consideration of entering into an F2agreement by virtue of which the individual is an employee shareholder (see section 205A(1)(a) to (d) of the Employment Rights Act 1996).

(2)

The individual is not to be regarded as disposing of an asset by reason of the individual ceasing to have, or not acquiring, the rights mentioned in section 205A of the Employment Rights Act 1996 (rights which an employee shareholder does not have) in consequence of entering into the agreement.

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Textual amendments

F1

Ss. 236B-236G and cross-heading inserted (1.9.2013) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 23 paras. 20, 38; S.I. 2013/1755, art. 2

F2

Words in s. 236G(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 13(6)-(8) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2017 (c. 10), s. 13(5)