The Investment Trusts (Dividends) (Optional Treatment as Interest Distributions) Regulations 2009

Interest distributions: declarations and position of investment trust or prospective investment trust

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20.—(1) For the purposes of determining whether an interest distribution should be made with or without any deduction required by the deduction obligation, an investment trust or prospective investment trust is entitled to treat a declaration made for the purposes of regulation 17 as valid.

(2) But the investment trust or prospective investment trust may not treat the declaration as valid if condition A or B is met.

(3) Condition A is that the investment trust or prospective investment trust receives a notification in compliance with an undertaking under regulation 18 that a person to whom the undertaking relates has become resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.

(4) Condition B is that the investment trust or prospective investment trust comes into possession of information by some other means which indicates that such a person is or may be resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.