Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

5 (1) Any designation of assets required for the purposes of paragraph 3 above shall be made by a company in accordance with the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2) When designating assets for the purposes of paragraph 3(1) above, a company shall not designate an asset falling within any paragraph of sub-paragraph (5) below unless it designates all assets falling within each of the preceding paragraphs of that sub-paragraph.

(3) When designating assets for the purposes of paragraph 3(3) above, a company shall not designate an asset falling within any paragraph of sub-paragraph (5) below unless it designates all assets falling within each of the succeeding paragraphs of that sub-paragraph.

(4) When an asset falls within more than one paragraph of sub-paragraph (5) below, it shall be taken for the purposes of this paragraph to fall only within the first of them.

(5) The categories of assets referred to in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) above are—

(a) assets [F1 , other than land in the United Kingdom,] linked solely to overseas life assurance business;

(b) so many of any assets denominated in an overseas currency, other than any non-overseas linked assets, as have a value at the end of the period not exceeding the amount of the company’s [F2 non-linked liabilities] in respect of benefits expressed in that currency so far as referable to overseas life assurance business;

[F3 (c) assets, other than land in the United Kingdom, which—

(i) are shown in the books of the company as being held as assets of a fund where all, or all but an insignificant part, of the liabilities of the fund are in respect of overseas life assurance business carried on by the company at or through a branch or agency outside the United Kingdom; or

(ii) are managed under the control of a person whose normal place of work is at a branch or agency outside the United Kingdom at or through which the company carries on overseas life assurance business;

(d) assets other than land in the United Kingdom;

(e) land in the United Kingdom;]

but assets linked solely to [F4 pension business, life reinsurance business or basic life assurance and general annuity business] are not within any paragraph of this sub-paragraph (and may not be designated for the purposes of paragraph 3 above).

(6) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (5)(b) above assets are “non-overseas linked assets” if they are linked assets and none of the policies or contracts providing for the benefits concerned are policies or contracts the effecting of which constitutes the carrying on of overseas life assurance business.

[F5 (6A) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (5)(b) above “non-linked liabilities" means liabilities other than liabilities in respect of benefits to be determined by reference to the value of linked assets.]

(7) F6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 19AA para. 5(5)(a) inserted (10.1.1995 with effect in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by The Overseas Life Assurance Fund (Amendment) Order 1994 (S.I. 1994/3278), art. 5(a)

F2 Words in Sch. 19AA para. 5(5)(a) substituted (1.9.2000 with effect in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by The Overseas Life Assurance Fund (Amendment) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/2188), art. 4(2)(a)

F3 Sch. 19AA para. 5(5)(c)-(e) substituted for para. 5(5)(c)-(g) (1.9.2000 with effect in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by The Overseas Life Assurance Fund (Amendment) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/2188), art. 4(2)(b)

F4 Words in Sch. 19AA para. 5(5) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 8 para. 57(1) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), Sch. 8 para. 8

F5 Sch. 19AA para. 5(6A) inserted (1.9.2000 with effect in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by The Overseas Life Assurance Fund (Amendment) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/2188), art. 4(3)

F6 Sch. 19AA para. 5(7) omitted (1.9.2000 with effect in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by virtue of The Overseas Life Assurance Fund (Amendment) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/2188), art. 4(4)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 19AA para. 5 modified (20.3.1997 with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2) of the modifying S.I.) by The Friendly Societies (Modification of the Corporation Tax Acts) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/473), reg. 31

C2 Sch. 19AA para. 5(5) modified (6.4.1999) by The Individual Savings Account (Insurance Companies) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1871), regs. 5, 19