Section 63 Connected persons: interpretation.
United Kingdom
Any question whether a person is connected with another shall for the purposes of this Act be determined in accordance with the following subsections of this section (any provision that one person is connected with another being taken to mean that they are connected with one another).
A person is connected with an individual if that person is the individual’s husband or wife, or is a relative, or the husband or wife of a relative, of the individual or of the individual’s husband or wife.
A person, in his capacity as trustee of a settlement, is connected with any individual who in relation to the settlement is a settlor, with any person who is connected with such an individual and with a body corporate which, under section F1681 of F2the Taxes Act 1988 is deemed to be connected with that settlement (“settlement” and “settlor” having for the purposes of this subsection the meanings assigned to them by subsection F3(4) of the said section 681).
Except in relation to acquisitions or disposals of partnership assets pursuant to bona fide commercial arrangements, a person is connected with any person with whom he is in partnership, and with the husband or wife or a relative of any individual with whom he is in partnership.
A company is connected with another company—
if the same person has control of both, or a person has control of one and persons connected with him, or he and persons connected with him, have control of the other, or
if a group of two or more persons has control of each company, and the groups either consist of the same persons or could be regarded as consisting of the same persons by treating (in one or more cases) a member of either group as replaced by a person with whom he is connected.
A company is connected with another person, if that person has control of it or if that person and persons connected with him together have control of it.
Any two or more persons acting together to secure or exercise control of a company shall be treated in relation to that company as connected with one another and with any person acting on the directions of any of them to secure or exercise control of the company.
In this section “relative” means brother, sister, ancestor or lineal descendant.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Figure substituted by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), Sch. 29 paras. 15 and 32
- F2
Words substituted by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), Sch. 29 paras. 15 and 32
- F3
“(4)” substituted by Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1, SIF 63:1), Sch. 29 paras. 15 and 32
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
- F1
Act repealed (6.3.1992 with effect as mentioned in s. 289(1)(2) of the repealing Act) by Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 (c. 12), ss. 289, 290, Sch.12 (with s. 201(3), Sch. 11 paras. 20, 22, 26(2), 27 and with saving in Sch. 11 para. 24(2)) and subject to an amendment (prosp.) by Museum and Galleries Act 1992 (c. 44), s. 11(2), Sch. 8 Pt. I para. 1(1)(2)(7), and amendments by: Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 (c. 21), s. 4(2), Sch. 2 para. 9(1)(2) (in force 6.4.1992 by S.I. 1991/2617, art. 2(f)); S.I. 1991/2874, art. 2 (in force 6.4.1992 by S.R. 1992/94, art. 2); Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 52(a)(b) (in force 1.7.1992 by s. 7(2) of the amending Act); Social Security (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 9), s. 4, Sch. 2 para. 20(a)(b) (in force 1.7.1992 by s. 7(2) of the amending Act); Finance (No. 2) Act 1992 (c. 48), ss. 35(2), 47, 48, 56, 77, Sch. 9 para. 20(1)(inserting ss. 143A and 143B), Sch. 17 paras. 3, 6(2)(5), 7, (the amendments coming into force 16.7.1992 except for the amendment by s. 56, Sch. 9 para. 20(1) which comes into force on 19.2.1993 by S.I. 1993/236, art. 2); and amendments (retrospective to 1.1.1992) by ss. 35(2), 47, 48 of the same 1992 Act, and amendments (27.7.1993 with effect as mentioned in ss. 84(3), 86(4), 88(4), 105(4) of the amending Act) by 1993 c. 34, ss. 84(3), 86(4), 88(4)(a)(b), 105(3)(4)