Finance Leasing Manual - FLM37.10

Part II Schedule 12: alteration of lease granted before 26 November 1996

Where a lease granted prior to 26 November 1996 is said to have been revised subsequently so that 'negative depreciation' arises for the first time, you should consider whether the revision is so extensive as to amount to a new lease of the asset. Attempts to revise leases in this way to take advantage of the grand-fathering of existing leases should be reported to BTD4 Leasing.