Section 118 | Certificate relating to protected leasing

(1)If—

(a)expenditure is incurred on the provision of plant or machinery, and

(b)before the expenditure has qualified for a normal writing-down allowance, the plant or machinery is used for overseas leasing which is protected leasing,

a claim for a writing-down allowance which takes account of that expenditure must be accompanied by a certificate.

(2)The certificate must specify—

(a)the description of protected leasing,

(b)the person to whom the plant or machinery has been leased, and

(c)if the certificate is given by reference to a chargeable period, all the items of plant or machinery (if more than one) relevant to that period.

(3)Subsection (1) applies, for the purposes of claims to first-year allowances, as if the references to a normal writing-down allowance and to a writing-down allowance included a first-year allowance.

(4)But nothing in subsection (3) prevents subsection (1) from continuing to apply if the use for protected leasing occurs after the expenditure has qualified for one allowance and before it qualifies for another.