Income Tax Act 2007

1014 Orders and regulations

(1) This section applies to all powers under the Income Tax Acts of the Treasury or the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to make orders or regulations, other than excluded powers.

(2) All powers under the following are excluded—

(a) ICTA (see instead section 828 of that Act),

(b) section 178(5) of FA 1989 (setting of rates of interest),

(c) CAA 2001 (see instead section 570B of that Act),

(d) ITEPA 2003 (see instead section 717 of that Act),

(e) Part 4 of FA 2004 (see instead section 282 of that Act),

(f) ITTOIA 2005 (see instead section 873 of that Act), and

(g) the following provisions of this Act—

(i) section 184(3)(b) and (c) (EIS: the unquoted status requirement (designated exchanges etc)),

(ii) section 295(3)(b) and (c) (venture capital trusts: the unquoted status requirement (designated exchanges etc)), and

(iii) section 1005(1)(b) (meaning of “recognised stock exchange”).

(3) Any orders or regulations made under a power to which this section applies must be made by statutory instrument.

(4) Any orders or regulations made under a power to which this section applies are subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the House of Commons.

(5) Subsection (4) does not apply if the order or regulations are made under—

(a) section 73A of FA 2004 (exemption for designated international organisations), or

(b) any of the following provisions of this Act—

(i) section 21(5) (indexation of starting rate limit and basic rate limit),

(ii) section 57 (indexation of allowances),

(iii) section 114 or 802 (exclusion of amounts in calculating individual’s contribution to the firm),

(iv) section 400(4)(e) (amounts treated as contributed by an individual to investment partnership capital),

(v) section 897 (UK public revenue dividends: regulations about collection of income tax),

(vi) section 962 (regulations modifying Chapter 15 of Part 15),

(vii) section 979 (designated international organisations: exceptions from duties to deduct),

(viii) section 991(2)(e) (meaning of “bank”), or

(ix) section 1030(2) (power to make transitional or saving provision in connection with coming into force of this Act).

(6) Further, subsection (4) does not apply—

(a) if any other Parliamentary procedure is expressly provided to apply in relation to the order or regulations, or

(b) if the order in question appoints a day for the purposes of any provision of the Income Tax Acts from which the provision will have effect (with or without amendments) or will cease to have effect,

and is also subject to any other provision to the contrary.