73 Pre-1978 protective trusts.U.K.
(1)This section applies to settled property which is held on trusts to the like effect as those specified in section 33(1)(ii) of the M1Trustee Act 1925 and which became held on those trusts on the failure or determination before 12th April 1978 of trusts to the like effect as those specified in section 33(1)(i).
(2)Subject to subsection (3) below, there shall be a charge to tax under this section—
(a)where settled property ceases to be property to which this section applies, otherwise than by virtue of a payment out of the settled property for the benefit of the principal beneficiary within the meaning of section 33 of the Trustee Act 1925, and
(b)in a case which paragraph (a) above does not apply, where the trustees make a disposition (otherwise than by way of such a payment) as a result of which the value of settled property to which this section applies is less than it would be but for the disposition.
(3)Subsections (3) to (10) of section 70 above shall apply for the purposes of this section as they apply for the purposes of that section.