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            An “existing approved scheme” means a personal pension scheme approved

under Chapter 4 of Part 14 of that Act before 9th April 2003.

     (3)    In section 641A(1) of that Act (election for contributions to be treated as paid in

previous year), for “A person who pays a contribution under approved

personal pension arrangements” substitute “An individual who under

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approved personal pension arrangements made by him pays a contribution”.

     (4)    This section has effect in relation to contributions paid on or after 9th April

2003.

Miscellaneous

 174   Payments to adopters

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     (1)    After section 327 of the Taxes Act 1988 insert—

       “327A Payments to adopters

           (1)           The following payments shall not be treated as income for any purpose

of the Income Tax Acts—

                  (a)                 any payment or reward falling within section 57(3) of the

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Adoption Act 1976 (payments authorised by the court) which is

made to a person who has adopted, or intends to adopt, a child;

                  (b)                 payments under section 57(3A)(a) of that Act (payments by

adoption agencies of legal or medical expenses of persons

seeking to adopt);

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                  (c)                 payments of allowances under regulations under section 57A of

that Act (permitted allowances to persons who have adopted,

or intend to adopt, children) (as at 9th April 2003, see the

Adoption Allowance Regulations 1991);

                  (d)                 any payment or reward falling within section 51(3) of the

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Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 (payments authorised by the

court) which is made to a person who has adopted, or intends

to adopt, a child;

                  (e)                 payments under section 51(4)(a) of that Act (payments by

adoption agencies of legal or medical expenses of persons

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seeking to adopt);

                  (f)                 payments of allowances by virtue of section 51B of that Act

(transitional provisions) in accordance with a scheme approved

by the Secretary of State under section 51(5) of that Act (schemes

for payment of allowances to persons who have adopted, or

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intend to adopt, a child);

                  (g)                 payments of allowances in accordance with an adoption

allowances scheme under section 51A of that Act;

                  (h)                 any payment or reward falling within Article 59(2)(b) of the

Adoption (Northern Ireland) Order 1987 (payments authorised

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by the court) which is made to a person who has adopted, or

intends to adopt, a child;

                  (i)                 any payment under Article 59(2)(c) of that Order (payments by

registered adoption societies) which is made to a person who

has adopted, or intends to adopt, a child;

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                  (j)                 payments of allowances under regulations under Article 59A of

that Order (permitted allowances to persons who have adopted,

 

 

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or intend to adopt, children) (as at 9th April 2003, see the

Adoption Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996);

                  (k)                 payments of financial support made in the course of providing

adoption support services within the meaning of the Adoption

and Children Act 2002 (see sections 2(6) and (7) and 4 of that

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Act);

                  (l)                 payments made under regulations under paragraph 3(1) of

Schedule 4 to that Act (transitional and transitory provisions:

adoption support services).

           (2)           The Treasury may by order amend this section for the purposes of—

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                  (a)                 adding a description of payment, or

                  (b)                 removing a description of payment if the power to make a

payment of that description has been repealed or revoked or

has otherwise ceased to be exercisable.”.

     (2)    The amendment made by this section has effect for the year 2003-04 and

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subsequent years of assessment.

 175   Foster carers

     (1)    Schedule 36 to this Act (foster carers) has effect.

     (2)    This section has effect in relation to the year 2003-04 and subsequent years of

assessment.

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 176   Currency contracts and currency options

     (1)    This section applies in any case where at any time on or after 30th September

2002—

           (a)           a qualifying company becomes party to a qualifying contract which is

a currency contract or currency option, or

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           (b)           the terms of such a qualifying contract held by such a company are

varied,

            and the conditions in subsection (2) are, or subsequently become, satisfied.

     (2)    The conditions are that—

           (a)           in accordance with generally accepted accounting practice, the

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company in preparing its statutory accounts uses the exchange rate

implied by the qualifying contract (“the accounting rate”);

           (b)           there is a difference between the accounting rate and the final payment

rate; and

           (c)           the difference between those exchange rates is more than 1 per cent of

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the final payment rate.

     (3)    In subsection (2) “the final payment rate” means the exchange rate found by

reference only to the amounts which fall or would, apart from this section and

the provisions specified in subsection (4), fall to be regarded for the purposes

of subsection (2) or, as the case may be, (7) of section 150 of the Finance Act 1994

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(c. 9) as the amounts of the currency to be received, and the currency to be paid

in exchange, under the qualifying contract as mentioned in that subsection.

     (4)    Where this section first applies in relation to the qualifying contract in an

accounting period of the company which begins before 1st October 2002 (“the

 

 

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relevant contract period”), the following provisions of the Finance Act 2002

(c. 23), namely—

           (a)           section 79(1)(b) (repeal of forex),

           (b)           section 80 and Schedule 24 (corporation tax: currency), and

           (c)           section 83 and Schedules 26 and 27 (derivative contracts),

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            shall be taken to have effect in the case of the company, so far as relating to that

contract, in relation to that accounting period and any subsequent accounting

periods.

     (5)    Where—

           (a)           the qualifying contract is a currency contract which arises from the

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exercise of a currency option which is or was itself a qualifying contract

(or a series of such currency options), and

           (b)           that currency option was entered into or varied on or after 30th

September 2002 (or, in the case of a series of currency options, any of

them was entered into or varied on or after that date),

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            the provisions specified in subsection (4) shall be taken to have effect in the case

of the company, so far as relating to the currency option (or, in the case of a

series of currency options, each of the options entered into or varied on or after

30th September 2002) in relation to the earliest accounting period (“the relevant

options period”) in which the option (or any of the options) was so entered into

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or varied and any subsequent accounting periods.

     (6)    Where the provisions specified in subsection (4) have effect by virtue of this

section in relation to a currency contract or currency option the following

provisions of the Finance Act 2002, namely—

           (a)           section 81 (transitional provision), so far as relating to section 80 and

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Schedule 24, and

           (b)           Schedule 28 (derivative contracts: transitional provisions etc),

            shall have effect accordingly.

     (7)    In the application of Schedule 28 to the Finance Act 2002 by virtue of this

section, any reference to the company’s commencement day is to be taken—

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           (a)           in the case of a currency contract, as a reference to the first day of the

relevant contract period; or

           (b)           in the case of a currency option, as a reference to the first day of the

relevant options period.

     (8)    This section does not apply in relation to any contract entered into or varied in

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an accounting period beginning on or after 1st October 2002 unless the contract

arises from the exercise of a currency option which was entered into or varied

on or after 30th September 2002 and in an accounting period beginning on or

before that date.

     (9)    In this section the following expressions, namely—

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           (a)           qualifying company,

           (b)           qualifying contract,

           (c)           currency contract,

           (d)           currency option,

            have the same meaning as in Chapter 2 of Part 4 of the Finance Act 1994 (c. 9),

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(disregarding for this purpose the provisions specified in subsection (4)) and

references to the exercise of an option shall be construed accordingly.

 

 

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     (10)   In this section “statutory accounts” has the meaning given by paragraph 52 of

Schedule 26 to the Finance Act 2002 (c. 23).

     (11)   This section shall be deemed to have come into force on 30th September 2002.

 177   Loan relationships: amendments

Schedule 37 to this Act (which makes amendments in relation to loan

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relationships) has effect.

 178   Derivative contracts: transactions within groups

     (1)    In paragraph 28 of Schedule 26 to the Finance Act 2002, in sub-paragraph (3)(a)

(credits and debits to be brought into account: disregard of the transaction or

series of transactions except for certain purposes) after “except” insert—

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                           “(i)                             for the purpose of determining the credits and debits

to be brought into account in respect of exchange

gains or losses and identifying the company which is

to bring them into account, or

                            (ii)”.

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     (2)    In sub-paragraph (3)(b) of that paragraph (transferor and transferee deemed to

be the same person, except for that purpose) for “that purpose” substitute

“those purposes”.

     (3)    For sub-paragraph (4) of that paragraph substitute—

                       “(4)                References in this paragraph to one company replacing another as

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party to a derivative contract shall include references to a company

becoming party to any derivative contract which—

                    (a)                   confers rights or imposes liabilities, or

                    (b)                   both confers rights and imposes liabilities,

                                       where those rights or liabilities, or rights and liabilities, are

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equivalent to those of the other company under a derivative contract

to which that other company has previously ceased to be party.”.

     (4)    For paragraph 30 of that Schedule (amount to be brought into account on

transaction within a group where transferor uses mark to market basis of

accounting) substitute—

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        “30               (1)                Paragraph 28 does not apply where the transferor company uses an

authorised mark to market basis of accounting as respects the

derivative contract in question, but in any such case—

                    (a)                   the amount to be brought into account by the transferor

company in respect of the transaction referred to in that

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paragraph, or in respect of the series of transactions there

referred to, taken together, must be the fair value of the

derivative contract as at the date of transfer to the transferee

company; and

                    (b)                   the amount to be brought into account by the transferee

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company in respect of the transaction referred to in that

paragraph, or in respect of the series of transactions there

referred to, taken together, must be the same as the amount

brought into account by the transferor company in respect of

that transaction or, as the case may be, that series of

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                       (2)                In this paragraph “transferor company” and “transferee company”

have the same meaning as in paragraph 28.”.

     (5)    The amendments made by this section have effect where the date of transfer to

the transferee company falls on or after 9th April 2003.

 179   Contributions to urban regeneration companies

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     (1)    After section 79A of the Taxes Act 1988 (contributions to training and

enterprise councils and local enterprise companies) insert—

       “79B            Contributions to urban regeneration companies

           (1)           Notwithstanding anything in section 74, but subject to the provisions of

this section, where a person carrying on a trade, profession or vocation

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makes any contribution (whether in cash or in kind) to a designated

urban regeneration company, any expenditure incurred by him in

making the contribution may be deducted as an expense in computing

the profits of the trade, profession or vocation if it would not otherwise

be so deductible.

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           (2)           Where any such contribution is made by an investment company, any

expenditure allowable as a deduction under subsection (1) above shall

for the purposes of section 75 be treated as expenses of management.

           (3)           Subsection (1) above does not apply in relation to a contribution made

by any person if either he or any person connected with him receives or

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is entitled to receive a benefit of any kind whatsoever for or in

connection with the making of that contribution, whether from the

urban regeneration company concerned or from any other person.

           (4)           In any case where—

                  (a)                 relief has been given under subsection (1) above in respect of a

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contribution, and

                  (b)                 any benefit received in any chargeable period by the contributor

or any person connected with him is in any way attributable to

that contribution,

                         the contributor shall in respect of that chargeable period be charged to

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tax under Case I or Case II of Schedule D or, if he is not chargeable to

tax under either of those Cases for that period, under Case VI of

Schedule D on an amount equal to the value of that benefit.

           (5)           In this section “urban regeneration company” means any body of

persons (whether corporate or unincorporate) which the Treasury by

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order designates as an urban regeneration company for the purposes of

this section.

           (6)           The Treasury may only make an order under subsection (5) above

designating a body as an urban regeneration company for the purposes

of this section if they consider that each of the criteria in subsection (7)

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below is satisfied in the case of the body.

           (7)           The criteria are that—

                  (a)                 the sole or main function of the body is to co-ordinate the

regeneration of a specific urban area in the United Kingdom;

 

 

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                  (b)                 the body is expected to seek to perform that function by creating

a plan for the development of that area and endeavouring to

secure that the plan is carried into effect;

                  (c)                 in co-ordinating the regeneration of that area, the body is

expected to work together with some or all of the public or local

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authorities which exercise functions in relation to the whole or

part of that area.

           (8)           An order under subsection (5) above may be framed so as to take effect

on a date earlier than the making of the order, but not earlier than—

                  (a)                 1st April 2003, in the case of the first order under that

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subsection, or

                  (b)                 three months before the date on which the order is made, in the

case of any subsequent order.

           (9)           Section 839 (connected persons) applies for the purposes of this section.

           (10)          This section applies to contributions made on or after 1st April 2003.”.

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     (2)    In section 828(4) of the Taxes Act 1988 (orders or regulations under specified

provisions not to be subject to Commons negative resolution parliamentary

procedure) after “section 1(6),” insert “79B(5),”.

 180   Repos etc

Schedule 38 to this Act (which contains amendments relating to arrangements

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for the sale and repurchase of securities etc) has effect.

 181   Relevant discounted securities: withdrawal of relief for costs and losses, etc

Schedule 39 to this Act (relevant discounted securities: withdrawal of relief for

costs and losses, and extension of definition of “strip”) has effect.

 182   Court common investment funds

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     (1)    Section 469A of the Taxes Act 1988 (court common investment funds) is

amended as follows.

     (2)    In paragraph (c) of subsection (1) (persons entitled as against the Accountant

General to share in fund’s investments treated as unit holders in authorised

unit trust) for “the persons whose interests entitle them, as against the

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Accountant General, to share in the fund’s investments” substitute “the

persons with qualifying interests”.

     (3)    After that subsection insert—

           “(1A)              For the purposes of subsection (1)(c) above, the persons with qualifying

interests are—

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                  (a)                 in relation to shares in the fund held by the Accountant General,

the persons whose interests entitle them, as against him, to

share in the fund’s investments;

                  (b)                 in relation to shares in the fund held by any other person

authorised by the Lord Chancellor to hold such shares on behalf

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                        (i)                        if there are persons whose interests entitle them, as

against the authorised person, to share in the fund’s

investments, those persons;

                        (ii)                       if not, the authorised person;

                  (c)                 in relation to shares in the fund held by persons authorised by

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the Lord Chancellor to hold such shares on their own behalf,

those persons.”.

     (4)    This section has effect in relation to income arising to a common investment

fund on or after 6th April 2003.

     (5)    In this section “common investment fund” means a common investment fund

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established under section 42 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 (c. 53).

Part 8

Other taxes

Inheritance tax

 183   Authorised unit trusts, OEICs and common investment funds

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     (1)    The Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (c. 51) is amended as follows.

     (2)    In section 6 (excluded property), after subsection (1) insert—

           “(1A)               A holding in an authorised unit trust and a share in an open-ended

investment company is excluded property if the person beneficially

entitled to it is an individual domiciled outside the United Kingdom.”.

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     (3)    In section 48 (settlements: excluded property), after subsection (3) insert—

           “(3A)               Where property comprised in a settlement is a holding in an authorised

unit trust or a share in an open-ended investment company—

                  (a)                 the property (but not a reversionary interest in the property) is

excluded property unless the settlor was domiciled in the

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United Kingdom at the time the settlement was made, and

                  (b)                 section 6(1A) above applies to a reversionary interest in the

property but does not otherwise apply in relation to the

property.”.

     (4)    In section 178(1) (sale of shares etc from deceased’s estate: preliminary)—

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           (a)           in the definition of “qualifying investments”, after “authorised unit

trust” insert “, shares in an open-ended investment company”, and

           (b)           for “section 1 of the Administration of Justice Act 1965” substitute

“section 42 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982”.

     (5)    Section 272 (general interpretation) is amended as follows.

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     (6)    After the definition of “amount” insert—

                    ““authorised unit trust” means a scheme which is a unit trust scheme for

the purposes of section 469 of the Taxes Act 1988 (see subsection (7)

of that section) and in the case of which an order under section 243 of

the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 is in force;”.

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