Commentary on Sections Glossary Structure of this Part Section 410: UK oil licence: limit is original licence payment
1422.This section is based on section 116 of CAA 1990. It caps the qualifying expenditure on acquiring an interest in a UK oil licence to the amount originally paid to obtain the oil licence (or a reasonable part of the original payment).
1423.Subsection (4) makes it explicit that the cap does not affect any part of the expenditure that is treated as qualifying expenditure on mineral exploration and access by the first two sections in this Chapter.