Sub-fundsU.K.
477Sub-fund elections under Schedule 4ZA to TCGA 1992U.K.
(1)This section applies for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts (except so far as, in those Acts, the context otherwise requires) if the trustees of a settlement have made a sub-fund election under paragraph 1 of Schedule 4ZA to TCGA 1992.
(2)The sub-fund settlement is treated as a settlement that is created at the relevant time.
(3)Each trustee of the trusts on which property comprised in the sub-fund settlement is held is treated as a trustee of the sub-fund settlement.
(4)A person (“T”) who is a trustee of the sub-fund settlement is treated, from the relevant time, as having ceased to be a trustee of the principal settlement unless T is also a trustee of trusts on which property comprised in the principal settlement is held.
(5)A person (“T”) who is a trustee of the principal settlement is not to be treated as a trustee of the sub-fund settlement unless T is also a trustee of trusts on which property comprised in the sub-fund settlement is held.
(6)The trustees of the sub-fund settlement are treated as having become, at the relevant time, absolutely entitled to the property comprised in that settlement as against the trustees of the principal settlement.
(7)In this section—
“principal settlement” has the meaning given by paragraph 1 of Schedule 4ZA to TCGA 1992,
“the relevant time” means the time when the sub-fund election is treated as having taken effect under paragraph 2 of that Schedule,
“sub-fund election” has the meaning given by paragraph 2 of that Schedule, and
“sub-fund settlement” has the meaning given by paragraph 1 of that Schedule.