Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

50 United Kingdom securities: Treasury directions for payment without deduction of tax. U.K.

[F1 (A1) The interest on [F2 gilt-edged securities] (whenever issued and whatever the terms on which they were issued) shall be paid without deduction of income tax.]

(1) M1 The Treasury may direct that any of the following securities [F3 in so far as they are not gilt-edged securities], that is to say—

(a) F4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(b) any securities issued or deemed to be issued under the M2 National Loans Act 1939 or issued under the M3 National Loans Act 1968;

(c) F4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(d) F4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

shall be issued, or shall be deemed to have been issued, subject to the condition that the interest thereon shall be paid without deduction of income tax; and subject to the provisions of this section the interest shall be so paid accordingly F5 . . . .

(2) M4 The holder of any registered securities the interest on which is by virtue of [F6 subsection (A1) above or of] directions given under subsection (1) above payable without deduction of tax may make an application to the [F7 Registrar] under this subsection requesting that income tax shall be deducted from the interest on those securities before payment thereof.

(3) Where any such application is made, income tax in respect of the interest on those securities shall, so long as they remain registered in the name of the applicant and subject to the withdrawal of the application under subsection (5) below, be deducted and charged in the same manner as if they were not securities [F8 the interest on which is to be paid without deduction of income tax].

(4) M5 An application under subsection (2) above shall be made in such form as the [F7 Registrar] with the approval of the Treasury may prescribe, and any application made less than [F9 one month] before the date on which a payment of interest falls due shall only have effect as regards any payment of interest subsequent to that payment.

(5) An application made under subsection (2) above may at any time be withdrawn by notice to the [F7 Registrar] in such form as the [F7 Registrar] may with the approval of the Treasury prescribe, but an application so withdrawn shall, notwithstanding the withdrawal, continue to have effect as regards any interest payable less than [F9 one month] after the date the notice is [F10 received by] the [F7 Registrar].

(6) Where any securities to which subsection (2) above applies are held on trust, the holders of the securities may make an application under that subsection in respect thereof without the consent of any other person, notwithstanding anything in the instrument creating the trust.

(7) In this section—

• F11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

• [F12 “gilt-edged securities” means any securities which—

  (a)

  are gilt-edged securities for the purposes of the 1992 Act; or

  (b)

  will be such securities on the making of any order under paragraph 1 of Schedule 9 to that Act the making of which is anticipated in the prospectus under which they were issued,]F13 . . .

• “registered” means entered in the register of the [F14 Registrar;]

• [F15 “the Registrar” means the Registrar of Government Stock, as defined in section 49(4).]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 50(A1) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 37(8)-(13) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 37(2)

F2 Words in s. 50(A1) substituted (with application in accordance with s. 112(5) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2000 (c. 17), s. 112(1)

F3 Words in s. 50(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 37(8)-(13) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 37(3)(a)

F4 S. 50(1)(a)(c)(d) repealed (with effect in accordance with Sch. 8 Pt. 2(13) Note of the repealing Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 52, Sch. 8 Pt. 2(13)

F5 Words in s. 50(1) repealed (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 32 of the repealing Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), ss. 79, 205, Sch. 7 para. 11, Sch. 41 Pt. 5(2), Note (with Sch. 7 paras. 33-35)

F6 Words in s. 50(2) inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 37(8)-(13) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 37(3)(b)

F7 Words in s. 50 substituted (15.11.2004) by The Government Stock (Consequential and Transitional Provision) (No. 3) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2744), art. 1, Sch. para. 2(3)(a) (with art. 3)

F8 Words in s. 50(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 37(8)-(13) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 37(3)(c)

F9 Words in s. 50(4)(5) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 37(8)-(13) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 37(3)(d)

F10 Words in s. 50(5) substituted (15.11.2004) by The Government Stock (Consequential and Transitional Provision) (No. 3) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2744), art. 1, Sch. para. 2(3)(b) (with art. 3)

F11 S. 50(7): definition of "the Bank" omitted (15.11.2004) by virtue of The Government Stock (Consequential and Transitional Provision) (No. 3) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2744), art. 1, Sch. para. 2(3)(c)(i) (with art. 3)

F12 S. 50(7): definition of "gilt-edged securities" inserted (with effect in accordance with s. 37(8)-(13) of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1997 (c. 58), s. 37(4)

F13 S. 50(7): word at the end of definition of "gilt-edged securities" omitted (15.11.2004) by virtue of The Government Stock (Consequential and Transitional Provision) (No. 3) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2744), art. 1, Sch. para. 2(3)(c)(ii) (with art. 3)

F14 S. 50(7): word in definition of "registered" substituted (15.11.2004) by The Government Stock (Consequential and Transitional Provision) (No. 3) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2744), art. 1, Sch. para. 2(3)(c)(iii) (with art. 3)

F15 S. 50(7): definition of "the Registrar" inserted (15.11.2004) by The Government Stock (Consequential and Transitional Provision) (No. 3) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2744), art. 1, Sch. para. 2(3)(c)(iv) (with art. 3)

Marginal Citations

M1 SOURCE-1970 s. 101(1)

M2 1939 c. 117.

M3 1968 c. 13.

M4 SOURCE-1970 s. 101(2)

M5 SOURCE-1970 s. 101(3)–(6)