PART V MISCELLANEOUS RELIEFS
CHAPTER V MISCELLANEOUS
Non-residents’ bank accounts
157 Non-residents’ bank accounts.
1
In determining for the purposes of this Act the value of the estate immediately before his death of a person to whom this section applies there shall be left out of account the balance on—
a
any qualifying foreign currency account of his, and
b
subject to subsection (3) below, any qualifying foreign currency account of the trustees of settled property in which he is beneficially entitled to an interest in possession.
2
This section applies to a person who is not domiciled in the United Kingdom immediately before his death, and is neither resident nor ordinarily resident at that time.
3
Subsection (1)(b) above does not apply in relation to settled property if the settlor was domiciled in the United Kingdom when he made the settlement, or if the trustees are domiciled, resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom immediately before the beneficiary’s death.
4
For the purposes of this section—
a
the question whether a person is resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom shall, subject to paragraph (b) below, be determined as for the purposes of income tax; but
b
the trustees of a settlement shall be regarded as not resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom unless the general administration of the settlement is ordinarily carried on in the United Kingdom and the trustees or a majority of them (and, where there is more than one class of trustees, a majority of each class) are resident and ordinarily resident there.
5
In this section “qualifying foreign currency account” means a foreign currency account with the Bank of England, the Post Office, F1or an authorised institution; and for this purpose—
a
“foreign currency account” means any account other than one denominated in sterling, and
b
F2 “authorised instititution” means an institution authorised under the Banking Act 1987.