{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-of-chargeable-gains-act-1992/section-280",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-of-chargeable-gains-act-1992/section-280.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/12",
  "legislation_title": "Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/taxation-of-chargeable-gains-act-1992",
  "path": "section/280",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "280",
  "heading": "Consideration payable by instalments.",
  "text": "If the consideration, or part of the consideration, taken into account in the computation of the gain is payable by instalments over a period beginning not earlier than the time when the disposal is made, being a period exceeding 18 months, then, at the option of the person making the disposal, the tax on a chargeable gain accruing on the disposal may be paid by such instalments as the Board may allow over a period not exceeding 8 years and ending not later than the time at which the last of the first-mentioned instalments is payable.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 280 substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 134(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), Sch. 20 para. 65"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/12/section/280",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:15.270072+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."
}