SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 20CHARITABLE COMPANIES: QUALIFYING INVESTMENTS AND LOANS

PART I QUALIFYING INVESTMENTS

1

Investments specified in any of the following paragraphs of this Part of this Schedule are qualifying investments for the purposes of section 506.

2

Any investment falling within Part I, Part II, apart from paragraph 13 (mortgages etc.) or Part III of Schedule 1 to the M1Trustee Investments Act 1961.

3

Any investment in a common investment fund established under section 22 of the M2Charities Act 1960 F1, section 24 of the Charities Act 1993 or section 25 of the M3Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 1964 or in any similar fund established for the exclusive benefit of charities by or under any enactment relating to any particular charities or class of charities.

F23A

Any investment in a common deposit fund established under section 22A of the Charities Act 1960 F3or section 25 of the Charities Act 1993 or in any similar fund established for the exclusive benefit of charities by or under any enactment relating to any particular charities or class of charities.

4

Any interest in land, other than an interest held as security for a debt of any description.

5

Shares in, or securities of, a company which are F4listed on a recognised stock exchange F5. . . .

6

Units, or other shares of the investments subject to the trusts, of a unit trust scheme within the meaning F6given by section 237(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

6A

Shares in an open-ended investment company.

7

(1)

Deposits with F7a bank in respect of which interest is payable at a commercial rate.

(2)

A deposit mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above is not a qualifying investment if it is made as part of an arrangement under which a loan is made by the authorised institution to some other person.

F8(3)

In this paragraph “bank” has the meaning given by section 840A.

7A

Uncertificated eligible debt security units as defined in section 552(2) of ITTOIA 2005.

8

Certificates of deposit as defined in F9section 56(5).

9

(1)

Any loan or other investment as to which the Board are satisfied, on a claim made to them in that behalf, that the loan or other investment is made for the benefit of the F10charitable company and not for the avoidance of tax (whether by the F10charitable company or any other person).

(2)

The reference in sub-paragraph (1) above to a loan includes a loan which is secured by a mortgage or charge of any kind over land.