PART 8MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS TO PRIMARY LEGISLATION

Value Added Tax Act 1994 (c. 23)

Supplies exempt from Value Added Tax—Finance

348.—(1) In Schedule 9 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (exempt supplies), Group 5 (Finance) is amended as follows.

(2) For Note (6), substitute—

(6) In item 9—

“authorised unit trust scheme” has the meaning given in section 237(3) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

“operator” has the meaning given in section 237(2) of that Act; and

“trust based scheme” means a scheme the purpose or effect of which is to enable persons taking part in the scheme, by becoming beneficiaries under a trust, to participate in or receive profits or income arising from the acquisition, holding, management or disposal of property of a kind described in section 239(3)(a) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 or sums paid out of such profits or income.

(3) For Note (10), substitute—

(10) For the purposes of this Group—

“collective investment scheme” has the meaning given in section 235 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; and

“open-ended investment company” has the meaning given in section 236 of that Act..