PART 2AMENDMENTS TO PRIMARY LEGISLATION

The Finance Act 1996 (c. 8)

Loan relationships: continuity of treatment

94.—(1) Amend paragraph 12 of Schedule 9 (loan relationships: continuity of treatment) as follows.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1) for paragraph (c) substitute—

(c)a transfer between two companies of business consisting of the effecting or carrying out of contracts of long-term insurance which has effect under an insurance business transfer scheme;.

(3) For paragraph (9) substitute—

(9) In this paragraph—

“contracts of long-term insurance” means contracts which fall within Part II of Schedule 1 to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001;

“insurance business transfer scheme” means a scheme falling within section 105 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, including an excluded scheme falling within Case 2, 3 or 4 of subsection (3) of that section;

“overseas life insurance company” has the same meaning as in Chapter 1 of Part 12 of the Taxes Act 1988..

(4) This Article has effect in relation to any transfer under a scheme falling within section 105 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, including an excluded scheme falling within Case 2, 3 or 4 of subsection (3) of that section.