Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005

534 Regulations providing for relief in other cases where foreign tax chargeable

(1) This section applies if—

(a) apart from this section, as a result of section 531 or paragraph 109(2) of Schedule 2, section 530 would not apply to gains from a policy or contract (except for the purposes of section 535 (top slicing relief)), and

(b) the Board of Inland Revenue consider it appropriate to disapply section 531 and paragraph 109(2) of Schedule 2 in relation to such gains by reference to tax chargeable under the laws of a territory outside the United Kingdom in cases other than those where they are disapplied as a result of section 532.

(2) The Board of Inland Revenue may by regulations provide for section 530 to apply to those gains (and accordingly section 531 and paragraph 109(2) of Schedule 2 not to apply to them) if a claim is made that the conditions specified in the regulations are met in relation to any time.

(3) That time may be a time before the regulations are made or a later time.