Part 4Savings and investment income

Chapter 7Purchased life annuity payments

423Meaning of “purchased life annuity”

1

In this Chapter “purchased life annuity” means an annuity—

a

granted for consideration in money or money's worth in the ordinary course of a business of granting annuities on human life, and

b

payable for a term ending at a time ascertainable only by reference to the end of a human life.

2

For this purpose it does not matter that the annuity may in some circumstances end before or after the life.