Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

721 Death

(1) Where an individual who is entitled to securities dies, he shall be treated for the purposes of sections 710 to 728 as transferring the securities to his personal representatives immediately before his death.

(2) Where the securities are transferred with accrued interest by the personal representatives to a legatee in the interest period in which the individual died—

(a) section 713 shall not apply to the transfer, and

(b) the transfer of the securities which the individual is treated as making by virtue of subsection (1) above shall be treated as made to the legatee (and not to the personal representatives).

(3) In subsection (2) above “legatee” includes any person taking (whether beneficially or as trustee) under a testamentary disposition or on an intestacy or partial intestacy, including any person taking by virtue of an appropriation by the personal representatives in or towards satisfaction of a legacy or other interest or share in the deceased’s property.

(4) In the case of an individual who dies in an interest period, section 714(2) shall have effect as if the reference to the day the period ends were to the day he dies.

(5) Subsections (1) to (4) above do not apply where the individual concerned is an underwriting member of Lloyd’s and the securities concerned form part of a premiums trust fund, a special reserve fund or any other trust fund required or authorised by the rules of Lloyd’s or required by the underwriting agent through whom the individual’s business or any part of it is carried on, to be kept in connection with the business.

(6) In a case where subsection (5) above applies the deceased’s personal representatives shall be treated for the purposes of sections 710 to 728 as the transferor or transferee in relation to transfers of securities as to which the deceased was the transferor or transferee (as the case may be) in the interest period in which he died.