Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003

Consequences of company reconstructions

87 (1) In the SIP code references to a participant’s plan shares in relation to a SIP are to be read, after the time of a company reconstruction—

(a) as referring to the new shares, or

(b) as including those shares,

as the case may be.

This is subject to the following provisions of this paragraph.

(2) For the purposes of the SIP code—

(a) a company reconstruction is to be treated as not involving a disposal of the shares comprised in the original holding;

(b) new shares are to be treated as having been awarded to the participant on the date on which the corresponding old shares were awarded;

(c) the conditions in Part 4 of this Schedule (types of share that may be awarded) are to be treated as fulfilled with respect to any new shares if they were (or were treated as) fulfilled with respect to the corresponding old shares; and

(d) the provisions of—

(i) sections 489 to 514 (SIPs: income tax advantages and charges under this Act),

(ii) sections 68A to 68C and 251A to 251D of ICTA (SIPs: charges to tax under Case V of Schedule D or Schedule F),

(iii) sections 686B and 686C of ICTA (SIPs: income tax advantages for trustees), and

(iv) Part 1 of Schedule 7D to TCGA 1992 (SIPs: capital gains tax),

apply in relation to the new shares as they would have applied in relation to the corresponding old shares.

(3) If the corresponding old shares were dividend shares, the reference in sub-paragraph (2)(b) to the corresponding old shares being awarded is a reference to those shares being acquired on behalf of the participant.

(4) Sub-paragraphs (1) to (3) are subject to paragraph 88 (treatment of shares acquired under rights issue).

(5) For the purposes of the SIP code if, as part of a company reconstruction, trustees become entitled to a capital receipt, their entitlement to the capital receipt is to be taken to arise before the new holding comes into being.

(6) In the SIP code, in the context of a new holding, “shares” includes securities and rights of any description which form part of the new holding for the purposes of Chapter 2 of Part 4 of TCGA 1992 (reorganisation of share capital etc.).

(7) In this paragraph—

(a) “new shares” means shares comprised in the new holding which were issued in respect of, or otherwise represent, shares comprised in the original holding;

(b) “the new holding” and “the original holding” mean respectively the new and original holdings mentioned in paragraph 86(2);

(c) “corresponding old shares”, in relation to any new shares, means the shares in respect of which the new shares are issued or which the new shares otherwise represent.