Section 80 | Application of section 79 in cases involving partnerships

(1)This section deals with the application of section 79 in circumstances where—

(a)there is a change in the persons carrying on a trade, and

(b)the trade is carried on by persons in partnership before or after the change (or at both those times).

(2)The employer is treated for the purposes of section 79 as permanently ceasing to carry on the trade unless a company carrying on the trade in partnership immediately before the change continues to carry it on in partnership after the change.