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170(1)Section 636 (insurance companies: modifications of Chapter 5 (continuity of treatment on transfers within groups)) is amended as follows.U.K.
(2)In subsection (3), after the subsection (2B) which is treated as if it were inserted in section 626 insert—
“(2C)In subsection (2B) “qualifying overseas transfer” means so much of a transfer of the whole or any part of the business of an overseas life insurance company carried on through a permanent establishment in the United Kingdom as takes place in accordance with an authorisation granted outside the United Kingdom for the purposes of Article 14 of the Council Directive of 5 November 2002 concerning life assurance (No. 2002/83/EC).”
(3)In subsection (4), for the words from “the asset was within one of the categories set out in section 440(4)(a), (d) and (e) of ICTA” to the end substitute “ , immediately before or after the transfer, the asset was held for the purposes of a company's long-term business (but, in the case of an overseas life insurance company, ignoring assets which are not UK assets (within the meaning of section 117 of FA 2012)). ”
(4)In subsection (5)(a), for “the categories set out in section 440(4) of ICTA (transfers of assets etc)” substitute “ the applicable categories ”.
(5)After subsection (5) insert—
“(5A)For the purposes of subsection (5)(a) “the applicable categories” means—
(a)in the case of a UK life insurance company, the long-term business categories or a category of assets which are not held for the purposes of its long-term business, and
(b)in the case of an overseas life insurance company, the UK long-term business categories, a category of UK assets which are not held for the purposes of its long-term business or a category of assets which are held by it but which are not UK assets.”
(6)After subsection (7) insert—
“(8)For the purposes of this section—
(a)“the long-term business categories” has the same meaning as in section 116 of FA 2012, and “the UK long-term business categories” and “UK assets” have the same meanings as in section 117 of FA 2012, and
(b)section 122 of FA 2012 applies as it applies for the purposes of Chapter 8 of Part 2 of that Act.”
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