Section 897: Power to make regulations
2705.This section enables the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs to make regulations in relation to the Chapter. It is based on section 350A of ICTA.
2706.Subsection (2) allows regulations to be made which differentiate between different kinds of UK public revenue dividends and to make different provision for different circumstances. Subsection (2)(b) has been aligned to the wording of similar provisions. In particular it now includes a reference to incidental and consequential amendments.
2707.Section 350A(2)(b) of ICTA, which allowed regulations to be made in respect of the Bank of Ireland, has not been rewritten as it obsolete following the Bank of Ireland’s decision to discontinue its stock registration business.
2708.As a result of that decision, the United Kingdom gilts registers managed by the Bank of Ireland were closed with effect from 25 October 2002 (SI 2002/2521). The holdings were transferred to the main United Kingdom gilts register managed by the Bank of England with effect from 28 October 2002. So the specific provisions in section 350A(2)(b) are no longer necessary. If the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs were to wish to make similar provision in respect of a particular institution in future (including the Bank of Ireland) they could do so under the general power provided by section 897(2)(a).
