Part 9Special rules about settlements and trustees

Chapter 10Heritage maintenance settlements

Application of property for non-heritage purposes: charge to tax

512Charge to tax on some settlements

(1)

Income tax is charged in respect of a heritage maintenance settlement on any of the occasions described in cases A to D, subject to sections 516 and 517.

(2)

Case A is where any of the property comprised in the settlement (whether capital or income) is applied otherwise than—

(a)

for a property maintenance purpose, or

(b)

as respects income not so applied and not accumulated, for the benefit of a heritage body.

(3)

Case B is where any of that property, on ceasing to be comprised in the settlement, devolves otherwise than on a heritage body.

(4)

Case C is where the heritage direction ceases to have effect in respect of the settlement.

(5)

Case D is where any of the property comprised in the settlement, on ceasing at any time to be comprised in the settlement—

(a)

devolves on a heritage body, and

(b)

at or before that time an interest under the settlement is or has been acquired for a consideration in money or money's worth by that or another such body.

(6)

For the purposes of subsection (5)(b) any acquisition from another such body is to be ignored.