Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

376 Qualifying borrowers and qualifying lenders. U.K.

(1) M1 Subject to subsection (2) below, an individual is a qualifying borrower with respect to the interest on any loan.

(2) In relation to interest paid at a time when the borrower or the borrower’s husband or wife holds an office or employment in respect of the emoluments of which he or she would but for some special exemption or immunity from tax be chargeable to tax under Case I, II or III of Schedule E, the borrower is not a qualifying borrower.

(3) In subsection (2) above references to the borrower’s husband or wife do not include references to a separated husband or wife F1 . . . .

(4) M2 The following bodies are qualifying lenders:—

(a) a building society;

(b) a local authority;

(c) the Bank of England;

(d) F2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(e) a company which is authorised under section 3 or 4 of the M3 Insurance Companies Act 1982 to carry on in the United Kingdom any of the classes of business specified in Schedule 1 to that Act;

(f) any company to which property and rights belonging to a trustee savings bank were transferred by section 3 of the M4 Trustee Savings Bank Act 1985;

[F3 (g) a friendly society;]

(h) a development corporation within the meaning of the M5 New Towns Act 1981 or the M6 New Towns (Scotland) Act 1968;

(j) the Commission for the New Towns;

(k) the Housing Corporation;

[F4 (ka) the Secretary of State if the loan is made by him under section 79 of the M7 Housing Associations Act 1985;]

(l) the Northern Ireland Housing Executive;

(m) the Scottish Special Housing Association;

(n) F5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(o) the Church of England Pensions Board;

(p) any of the following which is [F6 for the time being registered under section 376A below], namely, an institution authorised under the M8 Banking Act 1987, a company which is authorised as mentioned in paragraph (e) above to carry on in the United Kingdom any of the classes of business specified in Schedule 2 to the Insurance Companies Act 1982, and a 90 per cent. subsidiary of any such institution or company or of a company within paragraph (e) above and any other body whose activities and objects appear to the [F6 Board] to qualify it for inclusion in this paragraph.

[F7 (4A) In subsection (4)(g) above, “friendly society” means—

(a) a friendly society within the meaning of the Friendly Societies Act 1992 (including any society that by virtue of section 96(2) of that Act is to be treated as a registered friendly society within the meaning of that Act), or

(b) a registered branch within the meaning of that Act (including any branch that by virtue of section 96(3) of that Act is to be treated as a registered branch within the meaning of that Act).]

(5) F8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(6) F9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 376(3) repealed (with effect in accordance with Sch. 4 para. 18(5), Sch. 20 Pt. 3(7) Note 4 of the repealing Act) by Finance Act 1999 (c. 16), Sch. 4 para. 11(a), Sch. 20 Pt. 3(7)

F2 S. 376(4)(d) repealed (26.3.2001) by The Postal Services Act 2000 (Consequential Modifications No. 1) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/1149), arts. 1(2), 3(2), Sch. 2

F3 S. 376(4)(g) substituted (19.2.1993) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), s. 56, Sch. 9 paras. 3(2), 22; S.I. 1993/236, art.2

F4 S. 376(4)(ka) substituted (1.11.1998) by Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38), ss. 140(2), 158(1), Sch. 16 para. 55; S.I. 1998/2244, art. 5

F5 S. 376(4)(n) repealed (1.10.1998) by Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38), ss. 152, 158(1), Sch. 18 Pt. 4; S.I. 1998/2244, art. 4

F6 Words in s. 376(4)(p) substituted (3.5.1994) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), s. 142(1)(a)

F7 S. 376(4A) inserted (19.2.1993) by Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), s. 56, Sch. 9 paras. 3(3), 22; S.I. 1993/236, art. 2

F8 S. 376(5) repealed (3.5.1994) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), s. 142(1)(b), Sch. 26 Pt. 5(19)

F9 S. 376(6) repealed (with effect in accordance with Sch. 4 para. 18(5), Sch. 20 Pt. 3(7) Note 4 of the repealing Act) by Finance Act 1999 (c. 16), Sch. 4 para. 11(b), Sch. 20 Pt. 3(7)

Marginal Citations

M1 Source-1982 Sch.7 13

M2 Source-1982 Sch.7 14(1); 1983 s.17(3)

M3 1982 c. 50.

M4 1985 c. 50.

M5 1981 c.64.

M6 1968 c. 16.

M7 1985 c. 69.

M8 1987 c. 22.