Part IIINCOME TAX, CORPORATION TAX AND CAPITAL GAINS TAX
CHAPTER II CAPITAL GAINS
Settlements
86 Trustees ceasing to be liable to U.K. tax.
(1)
This section applies if the trustees of a settlement, while continuing to be resident and ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, become at any time (the time concerned) trustees who fall to be regarded for the purposes of any double taxation relief arrangements—
(a)
as resident in a territory outside the United Kingdom, and
(b)
as not liable in the United Kingdom to tax on gains accruing on disposals of assets (relevant assets) which constitute settled property of the settlement and fall within descriptions specified in the arrangements.
(2)
The trustees shall be deemed for all purposes of the M1Capital Gains Tax Act 1979—
(a)
to have disposed of their relevant assets immediately before the time concerned, and
(b)
immediately to have reacquired them,
at their market value at that time.
(3)
In this section “double taxation relief arrangements means arrangements having effect by virtue of section 788 of the Taxes Act 1988 (as extended to capital gains tax by section 10 of the Capital Gains Tax Act 1979).
(4)
This section applies where the time concerned falls on or after 19th March 1991.