Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

Valid from 17/07/2013

[F1 Premium limit for qualifying policies to apply from 6 April 2013 U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 15 Pt. A1 inserted (17.7.2013) by Finance Act 2013 (c. 29), Sch. 9 para. 2

A1 (1) Sub-paragraph (2) applies if— U.K.

(a) an event falling within sub-paragraph (3) occurs,

(b) apart from sub-paragraph (2), the policy to which the event relates would be a qualifying policy after the event, and

(c) an individual who is a beneficiary under that policy is in breach of the premium limit for qualifying policies.

(2) That policy is not to be a qualifying policy after the event.

(3) The events falling within this sub-paragraph are—

(a) the issue of a policy in respect of an insurance made on or after 6 April 2013;

(b) the variation of a policy on or after 6 April 2013 where as a result of the variation—

(i) the period over which premiums are payable under the policy is or could be lengthened, or

(ii) the total amount of the premiums payable under the policy in any relevant period is or could be increased,

or both;

(c) the assignment on or after 6 April 2013 of any rights, or any share in any rights, under a policy where the assignment falls within paragraph B2(3)(c) to (g) or (5) below;

(d) a deceased beneficiary event on or after 6 April 2013;

(e) the conditions in paragraph 24(3) below being fulfilled for the first time in respect of a new non-resident policy where—

(i) the conditions are fulfilled for the first time on or after 6 April 2013, and

(ii) but for the conditions being fulfilled, the policy could not be a qualifying policy because of paragraph 24(2).

(4) An event does not fall within sub-paragraph (3) if—

(a) the policy to which the event relates is—

(i) a protected policy,

(ii) a restricted relief qualifying policy, or

(iii) a pure protection policy,

(b) the event is the issue of a policy which is a new policy in relation to an earlier policy where—

(i) the new policy is issued in substitution for the earlier policy (and not on its maturity), and

(ii) the life assured under the new policy is different to the life assured under the earlier policy but that is the only difference to what the position would have been had the earlier policy continued to run,

(c) paragraph 20ZA below applies to a policy and the event is the reinstatement or replacement of the policy as mentioned in paragraph 20ZA(4),

(d) the event is the issue or variation of a policy in relation to which paragraph 29 of Schedule 39 to the Finance Act 2012 applies, or

(e) the event is an assignment falling within paragraph B2(3)(e) below where the assignment is a mortgage endowment assignment.

(5) In sub-paragraph (3)(b)(ii) “relevant period” means any period of 12 months beginning at or after the time of the variation.

(6) A variation is to be ignored for the purposes of sub-paragraph (3)(b) if its effect is nullified before the end of the period of 3 months after the day on which the variation occurs.

(7) Sub-paragraph (4)(a)(i) does not apply in the case of an event mentioned in sub-paragraph (3)(e).

(8) Sub-paragraph (4)(a)(ii) does not apply in the case of—

(a) an event mentioned in sub-paragraph (3)(c) or (d) occurring in relation to a restricted relief qualifying policy (“the assigned policy”),

(b) any subsequent event relating to the assigned policy, or

(c) any event relating to—

(i) a later policy which is a new policy in relation to the assigned policy, or

(ii) any policy which is a new policy in relation to the later policy,

and so on.

(9) In the case of an event mentioned in sub-paragraph (3)(b), sub-paragraph (4)(a)(iii) applies only if the policy is a pure protection policy both before and after the variation.

(10) This paragraph is to be applied after all other provisions of this Schedule relevant to the question of whether a policy is a qualifying policy after an event have been applied.]