SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 U.K.Minor and consequential amendments

Part 1 U.K.Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

36 U.K.After section 76ZE insert—

“Redundancy payments etc U.K.

76ZF Redundancy payments and approved contractual payments

(1) Sections 76ZG to 76ZI apply if—

(a) a company to which section 76 applies (“the employer”) makes a redundancy payment or an approved contractual payment to another person (“the employee”), and

(b) the payment is in respect of the employee's employment wholly in the employer's life assurance business or partly in the employer's life assurance business and partly in one or more other capacities.

(2) For the purposes of this section and sections 76ZG to 76ZH “redundancy payment” means a redundancy payment payable under—

(a) Part 11 of the Employment Rights Act 1996, or

(b) Part 12 of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.

(3) For the purposes of this section and those sections—

• “contractual payment” means a payment which, under an agreement, an employer is liable to make to an employee on the termination of the employee's contract of employment, and

• a contractual payment is “approved” if, in respect of that agreement, an order is in force under—

  (a)

  section 157 of the Employment Rights Act 1996, or

  (b)

  Article 192 of the Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996.”