Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003

Partnership shares: introduction

43 (1) If a SIP provides for partnership shares, the following paragraphs apply—

• paragraph 44 (partnership share agreements),

• paragraph 45 (deductions from salary),

• paragraph 46 (maximum amount of deductions),

• paragraph 47 (minimum amount of deductions),

• paragraph 48 (notice of possible effect of deductions on benefit entitlement),

• paragraph 49 (partnership share money held for employee),

• paragraph 50 (application of money deducted where no accumulation periods),

• paragraph 51 (accumulation periods),

• paragraph 52 (application of money deducted in accumulation period),

• paragraph 53 (restriction on number of shares awarded),

• paragraph 54 (stopping and re-starting deductions),

• paragraph 55 (withdrawal from partnership share agreement),

• paragraph 56 (repayment of partnership share money on withdrawal of approval or termination), and

• paragraph 57 (access to partnership shares).

(2) The plan must meet any plan requirements contained in those paragraphs.

(3) References in the SIP code to the trustees acquiring partnership shares on behalf of an employee include their appropriating to an employee shares already held by them.

(4) In the SIP code references to an employee’s “salary” are to be read as follows—

(a) in the case of an individual within the scope of the charge to tax under Part 2 of this Act, they are to be read as references to such of the earnings of the eligible employment—

(i) as are liable to be paid under deduction of tax under PAYE regulations, after deducting any amounts included by virtue of the benefits code, or

(ii) as would be liable to be so paid apart from the SIP code;

(b) in the case of an individual not within the scope of the charge to tax under Part 2 of this Act, they are to be read as references to such of the earnings of the eligible employment as would have fallen within sub-paragraph (i) or (ii) of paragraph (a) if the individual had been within the scope of that charge to tax.

(5) In sub-paragraph (4) “the eligible employment” means the employment by reference to which the employee is eligible to participate in the plan.