The Individual Savings Account (Amendment) Regulations 2002

Amendment of the principal Regulations

5.—(1) Amend regulation 36 as follows.

(2) For paragraph (6) substitute—

“(6) In section 552 of the Taxes Act(1)—

(a) in subsection (1)(b) for the words “policy holder” there shall be substituted “account investor”;

(b) in subsection (3)—

(i) in the words “(or, where the appropriate policy holder is a company, the corresponding financial year)” shall be omitted;

(ii) for the words “the name and address of the appropriate policy holder” there shall be substituted “the name and address of the account investor”;

(iii) the words “and the corresponding financial year,” shall be omitted;

(c) in subsection (5)—

(i) for the words “the appropriate policy holder” there shall be substituted “the account investor”;

(ii) sub-paragraph (b)(ii) shall be omitted;

(iii) paragraph (c) shall be omitted;

(iv) in paragraph (d) the words “except where paragraph (c) above applies,” shall be omitted; and

(v) paragraph (f) shall be omitted;

(d) in subsection (6)—

(i) paragraph (b) shall be omitted;

(ii) for paragraph (c) there shall be substituted—

“(c) if the event is a death, the period of three months beginning with the receipt of written notification of the death;”;

(iii) after paragraph (c) there shall be inserted—

“(d) if the event is one specified in regulation 9(8) of the Individual Savings Account Regulations 1998 or a termination event, the period of three months beginning with the receipt of written notification of the event, or, if earlier, actual notice of the event.”;

(e) in subsection (7)—

(i) in paragraph (a) for the words “assessment, or, where the policy holder is a company, the financial year,” there shall be substituted “assessment”;

(ii) paragraph (b) shall be omitted;

(iii) for paragraph (c) there shall be substituted—

“(c) if the event is a death, the period of three months beginning with the receipt of written notification of the death;”;

(iv) after paragraph (c) there shall be inserted—

“(ca) if the event is one specified in regulation 9(8) of the Individual Savings Account Regulations 1998 or a termination event, the period of three months beginning with the receipt of written notification of the event, or, if earlier, actual notice of the event;”; and

(v) in paragraph (d) for the words “paragraph (c)” there shall be substituted “paragraph (c) or (ca)”;

(f) in subsection (8)—

(i) in paragraph (b) for “policy holder” there shall be substituted “account investor in respect”;

(ii) in paragraph (c) the words from “or” to the end of the paragraph shall be omitted;

(g) in subsection (9) the words “or financial year” shall be omitted in each place where they occur;

(h) in subsection 10—

(i) before the definition of “amount” there shall be inserted—

• ““account investor” has the same meaning as in the Individual Savings Account Regulations 1998;”;

(ii) the definition of “appropriate policy holder” shall be omitted;

(iii) the definition of “financial year” shall be omitted;

(iv) for the definition of “the relevant year of assessment” there shall be substituted—

• ““the relevant year of assessment”, in the case of any gain, means the year of assessment to which the gain is attributable;”; and

(v) after the definition of “section 546 excess” there shall be inserted—

• ““termination event” has the same meaning as in the Individual Savings Account Regulations 1998;”; and

(i) subsection (11) shall be omitted.”.

(3) After paragraph (6) there shall be inserted—

“(6A) In section 552ZA of the Taxes Act—

(a) in subsection (2)(b) the words “or an assignment” shall be omitted; and

(b) subsections (3) and (4) shall be omitted.”

(4) Omit paragraph (7).

(1)

Section 552 was replaced, and section 552ZA inserted, by Part 2 of Schedule 28 to the Finance Act 2001.