Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003

550Meaning of “employee benefit trust”U.K.
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(1)In this Chapter “employee benefit trust”, in relation to a company, means a trust where conditions A and B are met.

(2)Condition A is that all or most of the employees of the company are eligible to benefit under the trust.

(3)Condition B is that after 13th March 1989 either—

(a)there has been no disposal of any of the property subject to the trust, or

(b)any disposal of any of that property was a disposal within subsection (4).

(4)The disposals within this subsection are—

(a)disposals in the ordinary management of the trust, or

(b)qualifying disposals (within the meaning given by section 551).

(5)In this section and section 551 “disposal” means disposal by sale, loan or otherwise.