Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

49 Stock and dividends in name of Treasury etc. U.K.

[F1 (1) No tax shall be chargeable in respect of the stock or dividends—

(a) transferred, in pursuance of any Act of Parliament, to accounts in the books of the Bank of England in the name of the Treasury or the National Debt Commissioners, or

(b) transferred, in pursuance of any Act of Parliament, to the Treasury or the National Debt Commissioners and in respect of which the Treasury or those Commissioners are entered as holder in the registers kept by the Registrar of Government Stock,

but the Bank of England and the Registrar of Government Stock shall each transmit to the Board an account of the total amount thereof in those books or registers as the case may be.]

(2) No tax shall be chargeable in respect of the stock or dividends belonging to the Crown, in whatever name they may stand in the books of the Bank of England [F2 or in the registers kept by the Registrar of Government Stock].

[F3 (3) In this section “dividends” means any interest, public annuities, dividends or shares of annuities.]

[F4 (4) In this section “Registrar of Government Stock” means the person or persons appointed in accordance with regulations under section 47(1)(b) of the Finance Act 1942 (see regulation 3 of the Government Stock Regulations 2004).]

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 49(1) substituted (15.11.2004) by The Government Stock (Consequential and Transitional Provision) (No. 3) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2744), art. 1, Sch. para. 2(2)(a) (with art. 3)

F2 Words in s. 49(2) inserted (15.11.2004) by The Government Stock (Consequential and Transitional Provision) (No. 3) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2744), art. 1, Sch. para. 2(2)(b) (with art. 3)

F3 S. 49(3) inserted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 32 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), s. 79, Sch. 7 para. 10 (with Sch. 7 paras. 33-35)

F4 S. 49(4) inserted (15.11.2004) by The Government Stock (Consequential and Transitional Provision) (No. 3) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2744), art. 1, Sch. para. 2(2)(c) (with art. 3)