698 Special provisions as to certain interests in residue.U.K.
M1(1)Where the personal representatives of a deceased person have as such a right in relation to the estate of another deceased person such that, if that right were vested in them for their own benefit, they would have an absolute or limited interest in the residue of that estate or in a part of that residue, they shall be deemed to have that interest notwithstanding that that right is not vested in them for their own benefit, and any amount deemed to be paid to them as income by virtue of this Part shall be treated as part of the aggregate income of the estate of the person whose personal representatives they are.
[F1(1A)Subsection (1B) below applies where—
(a)successively during the administration period there are different persons with interests in the residue of the estate of a deceased person or in parts of such a residue;
(b)the later interest or, as the case may be, each of the later interests arises or is created on the cessation otherwise than by death of the interest that precedes it; and
(c)the earlier or, as the case may be, earliest interest is a limited interest.
(1B)Where this subsection applies, this Part shall have effect in relation to any payment made in respect of any of the interests referred to in subsection (1A) above—
(a)as if all those interests were the same interest so that none of them is to be treated as having ceased on being succeeded by any of the others;
(b)as if (subject to paragraph (c) below) the interest which is deemed to exist by virtue of paragraph (a) above (“the deemed single interest”) were an interest of—
(i)except in a case to which sub-paragraph (ii) below applies, the person in respect of whose interest or previous interest the payment is made;
(ii)in a case where the person entitled to receive the payment is any other person who has or has had an interest which is deemed to be comprised in the deemed single interest, that other person;
and
(c)in so far as any of the later interests is an absolute interest as if, for the purposes of section 696(3A) to (5)—
(i)the earlier interest or interests had never existed and the absolute interest had always existed;
(ii)the sums (if any) which were deemed in relation to the earlier interest or interests to have been paid as income for any year of assessment to any of the persons entitled thereto were sums previously paid during the administration period in respect of the absolute interest; and
(iii)those sums were sums falling to be treated as sums paid as income to the person entitled to the absolute interest.
(2)Where successively during the administration period there are different persons with absolute interests in the residue of the estate of a deceased person or in parts of such a residue, the aggregate payments and aggregated income entitlement referred to in subsections (3A) and (3B) of section 696 shall be computed for the purposes of that section in relation to an absolute interest subsisting at any time (“the subsequent interest”)—
(a)as if the subsequent interest and any previous absolute interest corresponding to the subsequent interest, or relating to any part of the residue to which the subsequent interest relates, were the same interest; and
(b)as if the residuary income for any year of the person entitled to the previous interest were residuary income of the person entitled to the subsequent interest and any amount deemed to be paid as income to the person entitled to the previous interest were an amount deemed to have been paid to the person entitled to the subsequent interest.]
(3)Where, upon the exercise of a discretion, any of the income of the residue of the estate of a deceased person for any period (being the administration period or a part of the administration period) would, if the residue had been ascertained at the commencement of that period, be properly payable to any person, or to another in his right, for his benefit, whether directly by the personal representatives or indirectly through a trustee or other person—
(a)the amount of any sum paid pursuant to an exercise of the discretion in favour of that person shall be deemed for all tax purposes to have been paid to that person as income for the year of assessment in which it was paid; and
(b)section 695(4) to (6) shall have effect in relation to an amount which is deemed to have been paid as income by virtue of paragraph (a) above.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 698(1A)(1B)(2) substituted for s. 698(2) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 18 para. 5(2) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 1995 (c. 4), Sch. 18 para. 5(1)
Marginal Citations
M1Source-1970 s.429; 1971 Sch.6 55