Finance Act 2012

ITA 2007 U.K.

5 (1) Section 833 of ITA 2007 (visiting forces and staff of designated allied headquarters: residence, etc) is amended as follows. U.K.

(2) In subsection (2), in paragraph (a) for “allied” substitute “ international military ”.

(3) After that subsection insert—

“(2A) This section also applies to an individual within subsection (3) or (3A).”

(4) In subsection (3), for “This section also applies to an individual who—” substitute “ An individual is within this subsection if the individual— ”.

(5) After that subsection insert—

“(3A) An individual is within this subsection if the individual—

(a) belongs to the EU civilian staff,

(b) is in the United Kingdom, but only because of serving as part of that staff, and

(c) is not a British citizen, a British overseas territories citizen, a British National (Overseas) or a British Overseas citizen.”

(6) In subsection (7)—

(a) omit the “and” before the definition of “designated”, and

(b) after that definition insert “, and

the EU civilian staff” means—

(a) civilian personnel seconded by a member State to an EU institution for the purposes of activities (including exercises) relating to the preparation for, and execution of, tasks mentioned in Article 43(1) of the Treaty on European Union (tasks relating to a common security and defence policy), as amended from time to time, and

(b) civilian personnel (other than locally hired personnel)—

(i) made available to the EU by a member State to work with designated international military headquarters or a force of a designated country, or

(ii) otherwise made available to the EU by a member State for the purposes of activities of the kind referred to in paragraph (a).”

(7) Accordingly, in the heading for that section for “and staff of designated allied headquarters” substitute “ etc ”.