Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Sch. 5 applied (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1)(2) of the applying Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 228(7), 235(8), 289 (with ss. 60, 101(1), 171, 201(3))
F13B(1)The following are the provisions that must be complied with under paragraph 3A(b) above.U.K.
(2)The trust deed must—
(a)appoint the initial trustees;
(b)contain rules for the retirement and removal of trustees;
(c)contain rules for the appointment of replacement and additional trustees.
(3)The trust deed must be so framed that at any time while the trust subsists the conditions set out in sub-paragraph (4) below are fulfilled as regards the persons who are then trustees; and in that sub-paragraph “the relevant time” means that time.
(4)The conditions are that—
(a)the number of trustees is not less than three;
(b)all the trustees are resident in the United Kingdom;
(c)the trustees include at least one person who is a professional trustee and at least two persons who are non-professional trustees;
(d)at least half of the non-professional trustees were, before being appointed as trustees, selected in accordance with sub-paragraph (7) or (8) below;
(e)all the trustees so selected are persons who are employees of companies which fall within the founding company’s group at the relevant time, and who do not have and have never had a material interest in any such company.
(5)For the purposes of this paragraph a trustee is a professional trustee at a particular time if—
(a)the trustee is then a trust corporation, a solicitor, or a member of such other professional body as the Board may at that time allow for the purposes of this sub-paragraph,
(b)the trustee is not then an employee or director of any company then falling within the founding company’s group, and
(c)the trustee meets the requirements of sub-paragraph (6) below;
and for the purposes of this paragraph a trustee is a non-professional trustee at a particular time if the trustee is not then a professional trustee for those purposes.
(6)A trustee meets the requirements of this sub-paragraph if—
(a)he was appointed as an initial trustee and, before being appointed as trustee, was selected by (and only by) the persons who later became the non-professional initial trustees, or
(b)he was appointed as a replacement or additional trustee and, before being appointed as trustee, was selected by (and only by) the persons who were the non-professional trustees at the time of the selection.
(7)Trustees are selected in accordance with this sub-paragraph if the process of selection is one under which—
(a)all the persons who are employees of the companies which fall within the founding company’s group at the time of the selection, and who do not have and have never had a material interest in any such company, are (so far as is reasonably practicable) given the opportunity to stand for selection,
(b)all the employees of the companies falling within the founding company’s group at the time of the selection are (so far as is reasonably practicable) given the opportunity to vote, and
(c)persons gaining more votes are preferred to those gaining less.
(8)Trustees are selected in accordance with this sub-paragraph if they are selected by persons elected to represent the employees of the companies falling within the founding company’s group at the time of the selection.
(9)For the purposes of this paragraph a company falls within the founding company’s group at a particular time if—
(a)it is at that time resident in the United Kingdom, and
(b)it is the founding company or it is at that time controlled by the founding company.
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 5 paras. 3A-3C inserted (3.5.1994) by 1994 c. 9, s. 102, Sch. 13 para. 3