VCM91070 | CVS: investors and reliefs: material interest: connected persons and associates
From HM Revenue & Customs · Venture Capital Schemes Manual
FA00/SCH15/PARA7(1) & (5)(b)
For the purposes of calculating whether the interest of the investing company is at any time a material interest there are to be attributed to the company:
the interests of any persons connected with the company, and
the interests of any persons who are associates of the company.
Note that throughout Schedule 15 ‘connected’ has the meaning given in ICTA88/S839 (see CG14580 onwards, which deals with similarly worded legislation), and ‘associate’ has the meaning given in ICTA88/S417 (see CTM60150).