Section 305 | Group relief and group relief for carried-forward losses

(1)On a claim for group relief made by a claimant company in relation to a surrendering company, group relief may not be allowed against the claimant company's ring fence profits except so far as the claim relates to losses incurred by the surrendering company that arose from oil extraction activities or from oil rights.

(1A)On a claim under Chapter 3 of Part 5A, group relief for carried-forward losses may not be allowed against the claimant company's ring fence profits.

(2)In section 105 (restriction on surrender of losses etc within section 99(1)(d) to (g)) the references to the surrendering company's gross profits of the surrender period do not include the company's relevant ring fence profits for that period.

(3)The company's “relevant ring fence profits” for that period are—

(a)if for that period there are no qualifying charitable donations made by the company that are allowable under Part 6 (charitable donations relief), the company's ring fence profits for that period, or

(b)otherwise, so much of the company's ring fence profits for that period as exceeds the amount of the qualifying charitable donations made by the company that are allowable under section 189 for that period.

(4)In this section—

“claimant company” is to be read in accordance with Part 5 (see section 188) or Part 5A (see sections 188CB(2) and 188CC(2)), as the case requires;

“surrendering company” is to be read in accordance with Part 5 (see section 188).