Part 4U.K.Savings and investment income

Chapter 9U.K.Gains from contracts for life insurance etc.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1Pt. 4 Ch. 9 applied (with modifications) by The Individual Savings Account Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1870), reg. 36 (as added by S.I. 1998/3174, reg. 12 and as amended (6.4.2008) by S.I. 2008/704, regs. 1, 17(4))

C2Pt. 4 Ch. 9 applied (with modifications) by The Child Trust Funds Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1450), reg. 38 (as amended (6.4.2010) by S.I. 2010/582, regs. 1, 18)

C3Pt. 4 Ch. 9: power to exclude conferred (with effect in accordance with s. 148 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2012 (c. 14), s. 61(4) (with s. 147, Sch. 17)

Policies and contracts to which Chapter 9 appliesU.K.

474Special rules: qualifying policiesU.K.

(1)In the application of this Chapter to policies of insurance that are qualifying policies for the purposes of Chapter 1 of Part 7 of ICTA (policies within the conditions in Schedule 15 to that Act that qualify for special tax treatment) special rules apply.

(2)See, in particular—

(3)Policies within the definition of “foreign policy of life insurance” in section 476(3) that would otherwise be qualifying policies are treated for the purposes of this Chapter as not being qualifying policies in the cases specified in subsections (4) and (5).

(4)Policies within paragraph (a) of that definition are so treated once the conditions in paragraph 24(3) of Schedule 15 to ICTA have ceased to be met with respect to them (conditions that are required to be met for certain policies issued by non-UK resident companies to be qualifying policies).

(5)Policies within paragraph (b) of that definition immediately before an event do not count as qualifying policies in relation to that event.