Section 1141 | Permanent establishments of companies

(1)For the purposes of the Corporation Tax Acts a company has a permanent establishment in a territory if (and only if)—

(a)it has a fixed place of business there through which the business of the company is wholly or partly carried on, or

(b)a person acting on behalf of the company in the territory habitually concludes contracts, or habitually plays the principal role leading to the conclusion of contracts, that are routinely concluded without material modification by the company, and the contracts are—^F1

(i)for the transfer of the ownership of, or for the granting of the right to use, property owned by the company or that the company has the right to use, or^F1

(ii)for the provision of services by the company.^F1

(2)For this purpose a “fixed place of business” includes (without prejudice to the generality of that expression)—

(a)a place of management,

(b)a branch,

(c)an office,

(d)a factory,

(e)a workshop,

(f)an installation or structure for the exploration of natural resources,

(g)a mine, an oil or gas well, a quarry or any other place of extraction of natural resources, and

(h)a building site or construction or installation project.

(3)Subsection (1) is subject to sections 1142 to 1144.