Section 169VW | “Relevant employee” ^F1

(1)This section applies to determine for the purposes of—^F1

(a)section 169VB(2)(g), or^F1

(b)section 169VH(2)(c),^F1

whether a particular person has at any time in the relevant period been a “relevant employee” in respect of the issuing company.

(2)A person who has at any time in the relevant period been an officer or employee of—^F1

(a)the issuing company, or^F1

(b)a connected company,^F1

is to be regarded as having at that time been a relevant employee in respect of the issuing company, but this is subject to subsections (3) and (5).

(3)If—^F1

(a)a person is an unremunerated director of the issuing company or a connected company at any time in the relevant period, and^F1

(b)the condition in subsection (4) is met,^F1

the fact that the person holds that directorship at that time does not make the person a relevant employee in respect of the issuing company at that time.

(4)The condition referred to in subsection (3) is that at no time before the relevant period had the person mentioned in that subsection, or a person connected with that person, been—^F1

(a)connected with the issuing company, or^F1

(b)involved in carrying on (whether on the person's own account or as a partner, director or employee) the whole or any part of the trade, business or profession carried on by the issuing company or a company connected with that company.^F1

(5)If—^F1

(a)a person becomes an employee of the issuing company or a connected company at a time which is—^F1

(i)within the relevant period, but^F1

(ii)not within the first 180 days of that period,^F1

(b)at the beginning of the relevant period, there was no reasonable prospect that the person would become such an employee within the relevant period, and^F1

(c)the person is not at any time in the relevant period a director of the issuing company or a connected company,^F1

that employment of the person does not make the person a relevant employee in respect of the issuing company at any time in the relevant period.

(6)For the purposes of subsection (5) there is a “reasonable prospect” of a thing if it is more likely than not.^F1

(7)In this section—^F1

“director” is to be read in accordance with section 452 of CTA 2010,

“connected company” means a company which at any time in the relevant period is connected with the issuing company (and it does not matter for this purpose whether that time is a time when the person in question is an officer or employee of either company);

“the issuing company” means the company mentioned in (as the case may be) section 169VB(2)(g) or section 169VH(2)(c);

“the relevant period” means the period mentioned in (as the case may be) section 169VB(2)(g) or section 169VH(2)(c);

“unremunerated director” has the meaning given by section 169VX.