ICTA Part V

169.-Interpretation.  

(1) In this Chapter-

"employment" means an office or employment whose emoluments fall to be assessed under Schedule E, and related expressions have corresponding meanings;
"employment unit" means an undertaking, or that part of an undertaking, to which a profit-related pay scheme relates;
"pay" (except in the expression "profit-related pay") means emoluments paid under deduction of tax pursuant to section 203, reduced by any amounts included in them by virtue of Chapter II of Part V;
"profit period" means an accounting period by reference to which any profit-related pay is calculated;
"profit-related pay" means emoluments from an employment which are paid in accordance with a profit-related pay scheme;
"profit-related pay scheme" means a scheme providing for the payment of emoluments calculated by reference to profits;
"profits", or "losses", in relation to a profit period, means the amount shown in the account prepared for that period in accordance with the relevant profit-related pay scheme as the profit, or as the case may be the loss, on ordinary activities after taxation;
"registered scheme" means a profit-related pay scheme registered under this Chapter;
"scheme employer" means the person on whose application a profit-related pay scheme is or may be registered under this Chapter.

(2) References in this Chapter to the employees to whom a profit-related pay scheme relates are references to the employees who will receive any payments of profit-related pay under the scheme.