1Citation, commencement and effect#
(1)These Regulations may be cited as the Loan Relationships and Derivative Contracts (Disregard and Bringing into Account of Profits and Losses) (Amendment) Regulations 2006, and shall come into force on 29th March 2006.
(2)These Regulations have effect—
(a)in relation to accounting periods ending on or after 22nd March 2006 in the case of accounting periods beginning on or after 1st January 2006, and
(b)in relation to accounting periods ending on or after 29th March 2006 in any other case.
(3)But these Regulations do not have effect where a company ceased to be party to a loan relationship or derivative contract before 29th March 2006.
2Amendment of earlier Regulations#
In the Loan Relationships and Derivative Contracts (Disregard and Bringing into Account of Profits and Losses) Regulations 2006, for regulation 5 there shall be substituted—“5 1 This regulation applies if there is an arrangement where conditions A to D are met.2 Condition A is that a company is party to two or more derivative contracts under the arrangement to hedge a currency risk.3 Condition B is that those derivative contracts are intended, when taken together, to act as a hedge of that currency risk.4 Condition C is that the arrangements are such that—a if a profit arises on at least one of those derivative contracts, that profit would fall within paragraph 16(3) of Schedule 26 to the Finance Act 2002, andb if a loss arises on at least one of those derivative contracts, that loss would not fall within paragraph 16(3) of Schedule 26 to the Finance Act 2002.5 Condition D is that a loss to which paragraph (4)(b) applies arises under a derivative contract which is an option.6 The amount of the loss arising on the derivative contract mentioned in paragraph (5) is not to be recognised in determining the company’s profit or loss for any period.”
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