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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.