PART XIIU.K. SPECIAL CLASSES OF COMPANIES AND BUSINESSES

CHAPTER IU.K. INSURANCE COMPANIES, UNDERWRITERS AND CAPITAL REDEMPTION BUSINESS

[F1Separation of different categories of business]U.K.

Textual Amendments

F1Cross-heading before s. 432 inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 8 para. 57(1) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), Sch. 8 para. 51(2) (with Sch. 8 para. 55(2))

[F2432AA Schedule A business or overseas property business.U.K.

(1)An insurance company is treated as carrying on separate Schedule A businesses, or overseas property businesses, in accordance with the following rules.

(2)The exploitation of land held as an asset of the company’s long term business fund is treated as a separate business from the exploitation of land not so held.

(3)The exploitation of land held as an asset of the company’s overseas life assurance fund is treated as a separate business from the exploitation of other land held as an asset of its long term business fund.

(4)The exploitation of land held as an asset linked to any of the following categories of business is regarded as a separate business—

(a)pension business;

(b)life reinsurance business;

(c)basic life assurance and general annuity business;

(d)long term business other than life assurance business.

(5)Accordingly, the exploitation of land held as an asset of the company’s long term business fund otherwise than as mentioned in subsection (3) or (4) is treated as a separate business from any other.

(6)In this section “land” means any estate, interest or rights in or over land.]