Part 4 U.K. Savings and investment income

Chapter 9 U.K. Gains from contracts for life insurance etc.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Pt. 4 Ch. 9 applied (with modifications) by The Individual Savings Account Regulations 1998 (S.I. 1998/1870), reg. 36 (as added by S.I. 1998/3174, reg. 12 and as amended (6.4.2008) by S.I. 2008/704, regs. 1, 17(4))

C2 Pt. 4 Ch. 9 applied (with modifications) by The Child Trust Funds Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/1450), reg. 38 (as amended (6.4.2010) by S.I. 2010/582, regs. 1, 18)

Part surrenders and assignments: periodic calculations and excess events U.K.

508 The value of rights partially surrendered or assigned U.K.

(1) For the purposes of sections 507, 511 and 512, where any part of or share in rights conferred by a policy or contract is surrendered, the value of the part of or share in the rights surrendered is the amount or value of the sum payable or other benefits arising because of the surrender, except where subsection (2) or (3) applies.

(2) In the case of a surrender within section 500(c) (loans by insurers to which section 501 applies), the value for those purposes is an amount equal to the loan.

(3) In the case of a surrender within section 500(d) (payments by insurers under guaranteed income bonds etc.), the value for those purposes is the amount to which section 504 applies.

(4) For the purposes of sections 507, 511 and 512, where any part of or share in rights conferred by a policy or contract is assigned, the value of the part or share as at the time of the assignment is its surrender value at that time.

(5) For the requirement to ignore certain benefits, see section 497 (disregard of trivial inducement benefits).