6(1)In section 179 of the 1993 Act (cessation: final year of assessment), subsection (3) and, in subsection (2), the words “to subsection (3) below and” shall cease to have effect.U.K.
(2)After that section there shall be inserted the following section—
(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.”
(3)This paragraph has effect in any case where the member dies after the end of the year 1993-94.