PART IX ANNUAL PAYMENTS AND INTEREST

Annual payments

F1350A UK public revenue dividends: deduction of tax.

(1)

The Board may by regulations—

(a)

make provision as to the time and manner in which persons who under section 349(3C) deduct sums representing income tax out of payments of UK public revenue dividends are to account for and pay those sums; and

(b)

otherwise modify the provisions of sections 349 and 350 in their application to such dividends;

and in this section “UK public revenue dividend” has the same meaning as in section 349.

(2)

Regulations under this section may—

(a)

make different provision for different descriptions of UK public revenue dividend and for different circumstances;

(b)

make special provision for UK public revenue dividends which—

(i)

are payable to the Bank of Ireland out of the public revenue of the United Kingdom, or

(ii)

are entrusted to the Bank of Ireland for payment and distribution and are not payable by that Bank out of its principal office in Belfast;

(c)

include such transitional and other supplementary provisions as appear to the Board to be necessary or expedient.

(3)

No regulations under this section shall be made unless a draft of them has been laid before and approved by a resolution of the House of Commons.