Section 357LA | Agent of independent status

(1)A company is not regarded as having a NIRE by reason of the fact that it carries on business in Northern Ireland through an agent of independent status acting in the ordinary course of the agent's business.

(2)Sections 357LC to 357LI apply for the purpose of supplementing subsection (1) in relation to transactions carried out on behalf of a company by a person in Northern Ireland acting as—

(a)a broker (section 357LC),

(b)an investment manager (sections 357LD to 357LH), or

(c)a members' or managing agent at Lloyd's (section 357LI).