Finance Act 1989

4 (1) Section 541 shall be amended as follows. U.K.

(2) After subsection (4) there shall be inserted—

“(4A) Where, immediately before the happening of the chargeable event, therights conferred by a qualifying endowment policy are held as security for adebt owed by a company, then, if—

(a) the conditions in subsection (4B) below are satisfied,

(b) the amount of the debt exceeds the total amount previously paid under thepolicy by way of premiums, and

(c) the company makes a claim for the purpose within two years after the endof the accounting period in which the chargeable event happens,

this section shall have effect as if the references in subsection (1)(a)and (b) to that total amount were references to the amount of the debt.

(4B) The conditions referred to in subsection (4A) above are—

(a) that, throughout the period beginning with the making of the insurance andending immediately before the happening of the chargeable event, the rightsconferred by the policy have been held as security for a debt owed by thecompany;

(b) that the capital sum payable under the policy in the event of death duringthe term of the policy is not less than the amount of the debt when theinsurance was made;

(c) that any sum payable under the policy by reason of the chargeable eventis applied in repayment of the debt (except to the extent that its amountexceeds the amount of the debt);

(d) that the debt was incurred to defray money applied—

(i) in purchasing an estate or interest in land to be occupied by the companyfor the purposes of a trade carried on by it, or

(ii) for the purpose of the construction, extension or improvement (but not therepair or maintenance) of buildings which are or are to be so occupied.

(4C) If the amount of the debt is higher immediately before the happening ofthe chargeable event than it was at some earlier time during the periodmentioned in subsection (4B)(a) above, the amount to be taken into account forthe purposes of subsection (1) above shall be the lowest amount at which itstood during that period.

(4D) If during the period mentioned in subsection (4B)(a) above the companyincurs a debt by borrowing in order to repay another debt, subsections (4B)and (4C) above shall have effect as if, where appropriate, references toeither debt included references to the other.”

(3) In subsection (5), after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted “and

(c) “qualifying endowment policy” means a policy which is aqualifying policy by virtue of paragraph 2 of Schedule 15;”.