Finance Act 2002

General interpretation U.K.

54 (1) In this Schedule—

• F1 ...

• “bank” means any of the following—

  (a)

  the Bank of England;

  (b)

  any person falling within section 840A(1)(b) of the Taxes Act 1988; and

  (c)

  any firm falling within section 840A(1)(c) of that Act;

• “contract for differences” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph 12;

• “contract of insurance” has the meaning given by Article 3(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/544);

• [F2 “creditor relationship” has the meaning given by section 103(1) of the Finance Act 1996;

• “debtor relationship” has the meaning given by section 103(1) of the Finance Act 1996;]

• “derivative contract” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph 2;

• [F3 “embedded derivative contract” shall be construed in accordance with paragraph 2(5);]

• “exchange gain” and “exchange loss” shall be construed in accordance with sub-paragraphs (2) [F4 , (2A)] and (3);

• [F5 “fair value” , in relation to a derivative contract of a company, means the amount which, at the time as at which the value falls to be determined, is the amount that the company would obtain from or, as the case may be, would have to pay to an independent person for—

  (a)

  the transfer of all the company’s rights under the contract in respect of amounts which at that time are not yet due and payable, and

  (b)

  the release of all the company’s liabilities under the contract in respect of amounts which at that time are not yet due and payable;

• “fair value accounting” means a basis of accounting under which assets and liabilities are shown in the company’s balance sheet at their fair value;]

• “future” has the meaning given by paragraph 12;

• “insurance company” means a company which effects or carries out contracts of insurance;

• “intangible fixed assets” has the meaning given by paragraph 12;

• “investment trust” is a company approved for the purposes of section 842 of the Taxes Act 1988 (investment trusts) for an accounting period;

• “life assurance business” has the same meaning as in section 431 of the Taxes Act 1988;

• “long-term insurance business” means business which consists of the effecting and carrying out of contracts which fall within Part II of Schedule 1 to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001 and “contract of long-term insurance” means any contract which falls within that Part of that Schedule;

• “non-life mutual business” means any mutual trading, or any mutual insurance or other mutual business, which (in either case) is not life assurance business;

• [F3 “open-ended investment company” has the meaning given by section 468A(2) of the Taxes Act 1988;]

• “option” has the meaning given by paragraph 12;

• “related transaction” has the meaning given by paragraph 15;

• “relevant contract” has the meaning given by paragraph 2;

• “shares”, in relation to a company, has (except in paragraphs 39 and 40) the meaning given by paragraph 2;

• F6 ...

• “UK company” means a company incorporated or formed under the law of a part of the United Kingdom;

• “underlying subject matter” has the meaning given by paragraph 11;

• “warrant” has the meaning given by paragraph 12.

(2) References in this Schedule to exchange gains or exchange losses, in the case of any company, are references respectively to—

(a) profits or gains, or

(b) losses,

which arise as a result of comparing at different times the expression in one currency of the whole or some part of the valuation put by the company in another currency on an asset or liability of the company.

If the result of such a comparison is that neither an exchange gain nor an exchange loss arises, then for the purposes of this Schedule an exchange gain of nil shall be taken to arise in the case of that comparison.

[F7 (2A) The Treasury may make provision by regulations as to the manner in which—

(a) exchange gains or losses, and

(b) any other profits or gains or losses,

are to be calculated for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) in a case where fair value accounting is used by the company.

Any such regulations may be made so as to apply to periods of account beginning before the regulations are made, but not earlier than the beginning of the calendar year in which they are made.]

(3) A reference to an exchange gain or loss from a company’s derivative contract is a reference to an exchange gain or loss arising to a company in relation to a derivative contract of the company.

(4) In this Schedule “financial trader” means—

(a) any person who—

(i) falls within section 31(1)(a), (b) or (c) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (c. 8), and

(ii) has permission under that Act to carry on one or more of the activities specified in Article 14 and, in so far as it applies to that Article, Article 64 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/544); or

(b) any person not falling within paragraph (a) who is approved by the Board for the purposes of this paragraph.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 26 para. 54(1) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 52(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 10 para. 69(a), Sch. 42 Pt. 2(6)

F2 Words in Sch. 26 para. 54(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 1(2) of the amending S.I.) by The Finance Act 2002, Schedule 26, Parts 2 and 9 (Amendment) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/2201), arts. 1(1), 19(2)

F3 Words in Sch. 26 para. 54(1) inserted (with effect in accordance with art. 1 of the amending S.I.) by The Finance Act 2002, Schedule 26 (Parts 2 and 9) (Amendment No. 3) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3440), arts. 1, 15

F4 Word in Sch. 26 para. 54(1) inserted (retrospective to 7.4.2005) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2005 (c. 22), Sch. 6 para. 4(5)(6)

F5 Words in Sch. 26 para. 54(1) substituted (with effect in accordance with s. 52(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 10 para. 69(b)

F6 Words in Sch. 26 para. 54(1) repealed (with effect in accordance with s. 52(3) of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2004 (c. 12), Sch. 10 para. 69(c), Sch. 42 Pt. 2(6)

F7 Sch. 26 para. 54(2A) substituted (20.7.2005) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2005 (c. 22), Sch. 6 para. 11