Finance Act 2005

14 (1) Paragraph 6 of Schedule 28 (short-term annuity) is amended as follows. U.K.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1) (meaning of “short-term annuity”), for “An” substitute “ For the purposes of this Part an ”.

(3) For paragraph (e) of that sub-paragraph (short-term annuity to be level annuity, increasing annuity or relevant linked annuity) substitute—

“(e) its amount either cannot decrease or falls to be determined in any manner prescribed by regulations made by the Board of Inland Revenue.”

(4) After that sub-paragraph insert—

“(1A) An annuity does not fail to satisfy sub-paragraph (1)(e) by reason of the operation of a pension sharing order or provision.

(1B) The Board of Inland Revenue may by regulations make provision in relation to cases in which a short-term annuity payable by an insurance company (“the original short-term annuity”) ceases to be payable and in consequence of that—

(a) sums or assets (or both) are transferred from the insurance company to another insurance company and are applied towards the provision of either another short-term annuity (a “new short-term annuity”) or a scheme pension, lifetime annuity, dependants' scheme pension, dependants' annuity or dependants' short-term annuity by the other insurance company, or

(b) sums or assets are transferred to the relevant registered pension scheme.

(1C) The regulations may provide that—

(a) in a case where a new short-term annuity becomes payable, the new short-term annuity is to be treated, to such extent as is prescribed by the regulations and for such of the purposes of this Part as are so prescribed, as if it were the original short-term annuity, and

(b) in any other case, the relevant registered pension scheme is to be treated as making an unauthorised payment to the member of an amount equal to the aggregate of the amount of the sums, and the market value of the assets, transferred.

(1D) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (1B) and (1C) a registered pension scheme is the relevant registered pension scheme if the original short-term annuity was acquired using sums or assets held for the purposes of the pension scheme.”

(5) Omit sub-paragraph (2) (which defines level annuity, increasing annuity and relevant linked annuity).

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 10 para. 14 in force at 6.4.2006, see Sch. 10 para. 64(1)