Part 4Savings and investment income

C1C3C2Chapter 9Gains from contracts for life insurance etc.

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
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Pt. 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))

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Pt. 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)

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Pt. 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)

When chargeable events occur: general

488Disregard of some events after alterations of life insurance policy terms

1

This section applies if—

a

the terms of a policy of life insurance are altered,

b

the alteration is not itself a chargeable event, and

c

the conditions specified in section 489 are met.

2

After the alteration a chargeable event is only treated as occurring in relation to the policy if one would have been treated as occurring had the alteration not occurred.

3

If the alteration results in the policy being regarded as replaced by another, this section and section 489 apply as if they were a single policy.