Statutory Instruments
2013 No. 489
Corporation Tax
Income Tax
The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Tax Consequences) Order 2013
Made
6th March 2013
Laid before the House of Commons
7th March 2013
Coming into force
1st April 2013
The Treasury make this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 25 of the Public Bodies Act 2011( 1 ).
Citation and Commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Natural Resources Body for Wales (Tax Consequences) Order 2013 and comes into force on 1st April 2013.
Transfers from the Countryside Council for Wales to the Natural Resources Body for Wales
2. —(1) This article applies in the case of any transfer of property, rights or liabilities from the Countryside Council for Wales to the Natural Resources Body for Wales as a result of a transfer scheme made by the Welsh Ministers under section 23 of the Public Bodies Act 2011.
(2) For the purposes of the Tax Acts( 2 ) those bodies are to be treated as the same person.
(3) In particular, the transfer is to be disregarded for those purposes.
David Evennett
Anne Milton
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
6th March 2013
2011 c. 24 Income tax and corporation tax are relevant taxes for the purposes of section 25 of the Public Bodies Act 2011.
The expression “the Tax Acts” is defined in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30) as meaning the Income Tax Acts and the Corporation Tax Acts. The same Schedule provides that “the Income Tax Acts” means all enactments relating to income tax, including any provisions of the Corporation Tax Acts which relate to income tax and that “the Corporation Tax Acts” means the enactments relating to the taxation of the income and chargeable gains of companies and of company distributions (including provisions relating to income tax).