Finance Act 2024

Amendments of Part 2 of Schedule 36 to FA 2004

76 (1) Paragraph 19 (individuals permitted to take pension before normal minimum pension age) is amended as follows.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1), in the words before paragraph (a), for “benefit crystallisation event” substitute “relevant benefit crystallisation event”.

(3) After that paragraph insert—

“(1A) Chapter 15A of Part 9 of ITEPA 2003 (pension income: lump sums under registered pension schemes) has effect in relation to the individual with the modifications in sub-paragraphs (1B) and (2).

(1B) Where the relevant benefit crystallisation event is the individual becoming entitled to a pension commencement lump sum, section 637P of ITEPA 2003 (individual’s lump sum allowance) applies as if the amount specified in that section were £268,275 reduced by the relevant percentage (see sub-paragraph (4).”

(4) For sub-paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) Where the event is a relevant benefit crystallisation event, section 637R of ITEPA 2003 (individual’s lump sum and death benefit allowance) applies as if the amount specified in that section were the amount determined under sub-paragraph (2A) reduced by the relevant percentage (see sub-paragraph (4).

(2A) That amount is—

(a) £1,073,100, or

(b) in a case where, disregarding sub-paragraph (2), section 637R of ITEPA 2003 (individual’s lump sum and death benefit allowance) would apply in relation to the individual as if it specified any other amount, that amount.”

(5) In sub-paragraphs (3) and (4), for “benefit crystallisation event” substitute “relevant benefit crystallisation event”.

(6) Omit sub-paragraphs (5) and (6).

(7) At the end insert—

“(7) In this paragraph “relevant benefit crystallisation event” has the same meaning as in section 637S of ITEPA 2003 (availability of individual’s lump sum and death benefit allowance).”