[280C The permitted maximum age condition]

[280C  The permitted maximum age condition]

[(1)     This section applies for the purposes of the permitted maximum age condition.

(2)     Where a company makes an investment in another company (“the relevant company”), that investment (“the current investment”) breaches the permitted maximum age limits if—

(a)     the investment is made after the initial investing period, and

(b)     none of conditions A to C is met.

(3)     “The initial investing period” means—

(a)     where the relevant company is a knowledge-intensive company on the investment date, the period of 10 years [beginning with—

(i)     the relevant first commercial sale, or

(ii)     if the relevant company so elects, the date by reference to which that company is treated as reaching an annual turnover of £200,000 (see section 331B),] and

(b)     in any other case, the period of 7 years beginning with that sale.

(4)     Condition A is that—

(a)     a relevant investment was made in the relevant company before the end of the initial investing period, and

(b)     some or all of the money raised by that investment was employed for the purposes of the same activities as the money raised by the current investment (or some of those activities).

(5)     Condition B is that—

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