PART XVII TAX AVOIDANCE

CHAPTER II TRANSFERS OF SECURITIES

Miscellaneous provisions relating to securities

737A Sale and repurchase of securities: deemed manufactured payments.
(1) This section applies where on or after the appointed day a person (the transferor) agrees to sell any securities, and under the same or any related agreement the transferor or another person connected with him—
(a) is required to buy back the securities, or
(b) acquires an option, which he subsequently exercises, to buy back the securities;
but this section does not apply unless the conditions set out in subsection (2) below are fulfilled.
S. 737A(1) modified (1.1.1999) by The European Single Currency (Taxes) Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/3177), regs. 1, 14
(2) The conditions are that—
(a) as a result of the transaction, a dividend which becomes payable in respect of the securities is receivable otherwise than by the transferor,
(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
S. 737A(2)(b) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 159(1), Sch. 41 Pt. 5(21) Note 1 of the repealing Act) by Finance Act 1996 (c. 8), s. 159(1), Sch. 41 Pt. 5(21); S.I. 1996/2646, art. 2
(c) there is no requirement under any agreement mentioned in subsection (1) above for a person to pay to the transferor on or before the relevant date an amount representative of the dividend, and
(d) it is reasonable to assume that, in arriving at the repurchase price of the securities, account was taken of the fact that the dividend is receivable otherwise than by the transferor.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) above the relevant date is the date when the repurchase price of the securities becomes due.
(4) Where it is a person connected with the transferor who is required to buy back the securities, or who acquires the option to buy them back, references in the following provisions of this section to the transferor shall be construed as references to the connected person.
(5) Where this section applies, . . . Schedule 23A and dividend manufacturing regulations shall apply as if—
(a) the relevant person were required, under the arrangements for the transfer of the securities, to pay to the transferor an amount representative of the dividend mentioned in subsection (2)(a) above,
(b) a payment were made by that person to the transferor in discharge of that requirement, and
(c) the payment were made on the date when the repurchase price of the securities becomes due.
Words in s. 737A(5) repealed (with effect in accordance with Sch. 18, Pt. 6(10) Notes 3, 4) by Finance Act 1997 (c. 16), Sch. 18 Pt. 6(10); S.I. 1997/991, art. 2
(6) In subsection (5) above “the relevant person” means—
(a) where subsection (1)(a) above applies, the person from whom the transferor is required to buy back the securities;
(b) where subsection (1)(b) above applies, the person from whom the transferor has the right to buy back the securities;
and in that subsection “dividend manufacturing regulations” means regulations under Schedule 23A (whenever made).
S. 737A applied (with modifications) (2.1.1996) by The Sale and Repurchase of Securities (Modification of Enactments) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/3220), regs. 1, 4
S. 737A applied (with modifications) (2.1.1996) by The Sale and Repurchase of Securities (Modification of Enactments) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/3220), regs. 1, 5
Ss. 737A-737C inserted (3.5.1994) by Finance Act 1994 (c. 9), s. 122