154(1)This paragraph applies if—U.K.
(a)year X or, in Part 3 of this Schedule, the relevant year is the tax year 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 or 2017-18, and
(b)it is necessary to determine under this Schedule whether an individual was resident or not resident in the UK for a tax year before the tax year 2013-14 (a “pre-commencement tax year”).
(2)The question under this Schedule is to be determined in accordance with the rules in force for determining an individual's residence for that pre-commencement tax year (and not in accordance with the statutory residence test).
(3)But an individual may by notice in writing to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs elect, as respects one or more pre-commencement tax years, for the question under this Schedule to be determined instead in accordance with the statutory residence test.
(4)A notice under sub-paragraph (3)—
(a)must be given no later than the first anniversary of the end of year X or, in a Part 3 case, the relevant year, and
(b)is irrevocable.
(5)Unless, in relation to a pre-commencement tax year, an election is made under sub-paragraph (3) as respects that year—
(a)paragraph 10(b) of this Schedule has effect in relation to that year as if the words “by virtue of meeting the automatic residence test” were omitted,
(b)paragraph 16 of this Schedule has effect in relation to that year as if—
(i)in sub-paragraph (1)(b), the words “because P met the third automatic overseas test for each of those years” were omitted, and
(ii)in sub-paragraph (2)(a), the words “because P met the third automatic overseas test for that year” were omitted, and
(c)paragraph 49 of this Schedule has effect in relation to that year as if in sub-paragraph (2)(a) for the words from “because” to the end there were substituted “ in circumstances where the taxpayer was working overseas full-time for the whole of that year. ”
155(1)This paragraph applies if—U.K.
(a)year X or, for Part 3 of this Schedule, the tax year for which an individual's liability to tax is being calculated is the tax year 2013-14 or a subsequent tax year, and
(b)it is necessary to determine under a provision of this Schedule, or a provision inserted by Part 3 of this Schedule, whether a tax year before the tax year 2013-14 (a “pre-commencement tax year”) was a split year as respects the individual.
(2)The provision is to have effect as if—
(a)the reference to a split year were to a tax year to which the relevant ESC applied, and
(b)any reference to the UK part or the overseas part of such a year were to the part corresponding as far as possible, in accordance with the terms of the relevant ESC, to the UK part or the overseas part of a split year.
(3)Where the provision also refers to cases involving actual or deemed departure from the UK, the reference is to be read and given effect so far as possible in accordance with the terms of the relevant ESC.
(4)“The relevant ESC” means whichever of the extra-statutory concessions to which effect is given by Part 3 of this Schedule is relevant in the individual's case.
156(1)Sub-paragraph (2) applies in determining whether the test in paragraph 50(3) is met where the relevant year is the tax year 2013-14.U.K.
(2)The circumstances of a partner of the taxpayer are to be treated as falling within Case 6 for the previous tax year if the partner was eligible for split year treatment in relation to that tax year under the relevant ESC on the grounds that he or she returned to the United Kingdom after a period working overseas full-time.
(3)Where the circumstances of a partner are treated as falling within Case 6 under sub-paragraph (2), the reference in paragraph 50(7)(b) to the UK part of the relevant year as defined for Case 6 is a reference to the part corresponding, so far as possible, in accordance with the terms of the relevant ESC, to the UK part of that year.
(4)“The relevant ESC” means whichever of the extra-statutory concessions to which effect is given by Part 3 of this Schedule is relevant in the partner's case.
157(1)This paragraph applies in determining whether the test in paragraph 110(1)(c) is met in relation to a tax year before the tax year 2013-14 (a “pre-commencement tax year”).U.K.
(2)Paragraph 110(1) is to have effect as if for paragraph (c) there were substituted—
“(c)at least 4 out of the 7 tax years immediately preceding the year of departure was a tax year meeting the following conditions—
(i)the individual was resident in the UK for that year, and
(ii)there was no time in that year when the individual was Treaty non-resident (see paragraph 112(3)).”
(3)Whether an individual was resident in the UK for a pre-commencement tax year is to be determined in accordance with the rules in force for determining an individual's residence for that pre-commencement tax year (and not in accordance with the statutory residence test).
158(1)The existing temporary non-resident provisions, as in force immediately before the day on which this Act is passed, continue to have effect on and after that day in any case where the year of departure (as defined in Part 4 of this Schedule) is a tax year before the tax year 2013-14.U.K.
(2)Where those provisions continue to have effect by virtue of sub-paragraph (1)—
(a)the question of whether a person is or is not resident in the UK for the tax year 2013-14 or a subsequent tax year is to be determined for the purposes of those provisions in accordance with Part 1 of this Schedule, but
(b)the effect of Part 3 is to be ignored.
(3)The existing temporary non-resident provisions are—
(a)section 10A of TCGA 1992 (chargeable gains),
(b)section 576A of ITEPA 2003 (income withdrawals under certain foreign pensions),
(c)section 579CA of that Act (income withdrawals under registered pension schemes), and
(d)section 832A of ITTOIA (relevant foreign income charged on remittance basis).
159U.K.Section 13 of FA 2012 (Champions League final 2013) is to be read and given effect, on and after the day on which this Act is passed, as if section 218 and this Schedule had not been enacted.