Section 70YD | Increase in proportion of residual amount guaranteed: review of status ^F1

(1)This section applies where—

(a)a person is lessor under a lease (the “existing lease”) that is not a long funding lease,

(b)the person enters into an arrangement which meets, or arrangements which (taken together) meet, the conditions in subsection (2).

(2)The conditions are that—

(a)as a result of the arrangement or arrangements, there is an increase, after the inception of the lease, in the proportion of the residual amount that is guaranteed as mentioned in section 70YE(1)(b), and

(b)had the arrangement or arrangements been entered into before the inception of the lease, the lease would have been a long funding lease.

(3)The person is to be treated as if—

(a)the existing lease had terminated immediately before the time of the relevant transaction,

(b)another lease (the “new lease”) had been entered into immediately after the time of the relevant transaction,

(c)the term of the new lease were the portion of the term of the existing lease that remains unexpired as at the date of the relevant transaction;

(d)the date of the relevant transaction were the date of both—

(i)the inception of the new lease, and

(ii)the commencement of the term of the new lease.

(4)For the purposes of this section, the “relevant transaction” is the arrangement or, where two or more arrangements have been entered into, the latest of them.

(5)The Treasury may by regulations make provision for or in connection with restricting the application or operation of this section.