Finance Act 1993

Miscellaneous U.K.

179 Cessation: final year of assessment. U.K.

(1) Subject to subsection (5) below, this section applies where a member ceases to carry on his underwriting business, whether by reason of death or otherwise.

(2) Subject F1 . . . to the provisions of any regulations made by the Board, the member’s final year of assessment shall be that which corresponds to the underwriting year in which his deposit at Lloyd’s is paid over to him or his personal representatives or assigns.

F2 (3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(4) For the purposes of section 171 above and all other purposes of the Income Tax Acts, any profits or losses arising to the member from his underwriting business which are not taken (by virtue of the provisions of this Chapter) to be profits or losses of an earlier year of assessment shall be taken to be profits or losses of his final year of assessment.

(5) This section does not apply in any case where the member’s deposit at Lloyd’s is paid over to him or his personal representatives or assigns before 1st January 1993.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 179(2) repealed (3.5.1994 with effect in any case where the member dies after the end of 1993-94) by 1994 c. 9, ss. 228, 258, Sch. 21 para. 6(1)(3), Sch. 26 Pt. V(25) Note 3

F2 S. 179(3) repealed (3.5.1994 with effect in any case where the member dies after the end of 1993-94) by 1994 c. 9, ss. 228, 258, Sch. 21 para. 6(1)(3), Sch. 26 Pt. V(25) Note 3

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Ss. 179, 179A excluded (9.3.1995 with application as mentioned in reg. 1 of the amending S.I.) by S.I. 1995/351, regs. 1, 14(2)

SS. 179, 179A excluded (1.12.1997 with effect with respect to accounting periods of Lloyd's Scottish limited partnerships ending on or after that date) by S.I. 1997/2681, reg. 4(1)

[F3 179A Death of member. U.K.

(1) This section applies where a member ceases to carry on his underwriting business by reason of death.

(2) For the purposes of assessing the profits of the member’s underwriting business, the member shall be treated as having died at the end of the year of assessment which corresponds to the underwriting year immediately preceding that in which he actually died.

(3) For the purposes of the Income Tax Acts—

(a) the carrying on of the member’s underwriting business by his personal representatives shall not be treated as a change in the persons engaged in the carrying on of that business; and

(b) subject to the provisions of any regulations made by the Board, the business shall be treated as continuing until the member’s deposit at Lloyd’s is paid over to his personal representatives.]

Textual Amendments

F3 S. 179A inserted (3.5.1994 with effect in any case where the member dies after the end of the year 1993-94) by 1994 c. 9, s. 228, Sch. 21 para. 6(2)(3)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C2 Ss. 179, 179A excluded (9.3.1995 with application as mentioned in reg. 1 of the amending S.I.) by S.I. 1995/351, regs. 1, 14(2)

Ss. 179, 179A excluded (1.12.1997 with effect with respect to accounting periods of Lloyd's Scottish limited partnerships ending on or after that date) by S.I. 1997/2681, reg. 4(1)

[F4 179B Conversion to limited liability underwriting U.K.

Schedule 20A to this Act (which makes provision for certain reliefs to be available where a member converts to limited liability underwriting) shall have effect.]

Textual Amendments

F4 S. 179B inserted (22.7.2004) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 25 para. 2

180 Underwriting profits to be earned income. U.K.

(1) In relation to any member, all profits arising to him from his underwriting business—

(a) shall be treated for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts as immediately derived from the carrying on by him of that business, and

(b) accordingly, shall constitute earned income for those purposes.

(2) This section does not apply in relation to profits of the year 1992-93 or earlier years of assessment.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C3 S. 180 excluded (1.12.1997 with effect with respect to accounting periods of Lloyd's Scottish limited partnerships ending on or after that date) by S.I. 1997/2681, reg. 8

181 Lloyd’s underwriting agents. U.K.

In section 43 of the M1 Finance Act 1989 (Schedule D: computation), subsections (6) and (7) (which extend certain time limits for persons permitted by the Council of Lloyd’s to act as underwriting agents at Lloyd’s) shall cease to have effect in relation to periods of account ending on or after 30th June 1993.

Marginal Citations

M1 1989 c. 26.