Section 119 | Removal of requirement for at least one year’s service.

(1)In Schedule 5 to the Finance Act 1989 (employee share ownership trusts) in paragraph 4(5)(a) (for a trust to be a qualifying ESOT, its beneficiaries must have been employees or directors of the company for at least one year) the words “not less than one year and” shall cease to have effect.

(2)This section applies to trusts established on or after the day on which this Act is passed.