Corporation Tax Act 2009

560 Introduction to Chapter

(1) This Chapter makes provision about investment life insurance contracts to which relevant companies are party.

(2) See, in particular—

(a) sections 562 to 565 (which make provision about treating the contracts as creditor relationships in relation to those companies for the purposes of Part 5), and

(b) sections 566 to 569 (which make provision for cases where the relevant company was a party to the contract before the beginning of the company’s first accounting period beginning on or after 1 April 2008).

(3) In this Chapter “relevant company” means a company which is not a life insurance company.

(4) In subsection (3) “life insurance company” means—

(a) an insurance company (as defined in section 431(2) of ICTA) which carries on long-term business (as defined in that section), or

(b) a friendly society which would be such an insurance company but for the words “(other than a friendly society)” in the definition of “insurance company” in that section.

(5) For the meaning of “investment life insurance contract”, see section 561.