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The Child Trust Funds (Insurance Companies) Regulations 2004

S.I. 2004/2680 · Made 14 October 2004

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CHILD TRUST FUNDS

Made 14th October 2004

Laid before the House of Commons 14th October 2004

Coming into force In accordance with regulation 1

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 333B of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988f1 as extended by section 14(1) of the Child Trust Funds Act 2004f2, hereby make the following Regulations:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1988 c. 1; section 333B was inserted by section 77 of the Finance Act 1998 (c. 36) and amended by Articles 13, 22 and 52(2) of S.I. 2001/3629.

f2

2004 c. 6.

Contents

  1. 1Citation and commencement
  2. 2Interpretation
  3. 3Child trust fund business
  4. 4Modifications of the Taxes Act
  5. 5Modifications of the Taxes Act
  6. 6Modifications of the Taxes Act
  7. 7Modifications of the Taxes Act
  8. 8Modifications of the Taxes Act
  9. 9Modifications of the Taxes Act
  10. 10Modifications of the Taxes Act
  11. 11Modifications of the Taxes Act
  12. 12Modifications of the Taxes Act
  13. 13Modifications of the Taxes Act
  14. 14Modifications of the Taxes Act
  15. 15Modifications of the Taxes Act
  16. 16Modifications of the Taxes Act
  17. 17Modifications of the Taxes Act
  18. 18Modification of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992
  19. 19Modification of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992
  20. 20Modification of the Capital Allowances Act 2001
  21. 21Modification of the Capital Allowances Act 2001
  22. 22Amendments to the Insurance Companies Regulations
  23. Signature
  24. Explanatory note

1Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Child Trust Funds (Insurance Companies) Regulations 2004 and shall come into force on the day appointed under section 27 of the Child Trust Funds Act 2004, for the purposes of sections 8 and 9 of that Act.

2Interpretation

In these Regulations—

  • “child trust fund business” has the meaning given by regulation 3;

  • “individual savings account business” has the meaning given in the Insurance Companies Regulations;

  • “the Insurance Companies Regulations” means the Individual Savings Account (Insurance Companies) Regulations 1998f1;

  • “the principal Regulations” means the Child Trust Funds Regulations 2004f2;

  • “the Taxes Act” means the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988.

3Child trust fund business

For the purposes of these Regulations “child trust fund business”, in relation to an insurance company, means so much of that company’s life assurance business as is referable to any policy of life insurance, or to the reinsurance of liabilities under any such policy, where the policy is, on the date on which the insurance is made, a qualifying investment for an account within the meaning of regulation 12 of the principal Regulations.

4Modifications of the Taxes Act

Regulations 5 to 17 specify modifications of provisions of the Taxes Act so far as concerns the child trust fund business (and, in the case of regulations 11(b) and (c), 13 and 14, the individual savings account business) of insurance companies.

5Modifications of the Taxes Act

In section 431(2) insert at the appropriate place the following definition—

  • ““child trust fund business” has the meaning given by regulation 3 of the Child Trust Funds (Insurance Companies) Regulations 2004;”.

6Modifications of the Taxes Act

In both of sections 431C(1)f1 and 431D(1)f2 after “pension business” insert “, child trust fund business”.

7Modifications of the Taxes Act

In section 431Ff1 after “pension business,” insert “child trust fund business,”.

8Modifications of the Taxes Act

In section 432A(2)f1 (as modified by the Insurance Companies Regulations) after paragraph (aa) insert—

“(ab)

child trust fund business;”.

9Modifications of the Taxes Act

In section 432AA(4)f1 (as modified by the Insurance Companies Regulations) after paragraph (aa) insert—

“(ab)

child trust fund business;”.

10Modifications of the Taxes Act

In both of sections 432C(1) and 432D(1)f1 after “pension business,” insert “child trust fund business,”.

11Modifications of the Taxes Act

In section 436f1—

(a)

after the words “pension business”, in each place where they occur, insert “or child trust fund business”;

(b)

in subsection (1)(a) for “that business” substitute “the business of each such category”.

(c)

after subsection (3)(c) insert—

“(ca)

there may be set off (so far as it has not been set off under paragraph (c)), against the profits of child trust fund business any loss, to be computed on the same basis as the profits, which has arisen from individual savings account business, in the same or any previous accounting period;

(cb)

there may be set off (so far as it has not been set off under paragraph (c)), against the profits of individual savings account business any loss, to be computed on the same basis as the profits, which has arisen from child trust fund business, in the same or any previous accounting period;”.

12Modifications of the Taxes Act

In section 438(1)f1 add at the end “ or child trust fund business”.

13Modifications of the Taxes Act

In section 440(4)(a)f1 add at the end “, individual savings account business or child trust fund business, or assets linked to any of those categories but not to any other category of business”.

14Modifications of the Taxes Act

In section 440A(2)(a)(i)f1 after “pension business” insert “, individual savings account business or child trust fund business or any of those categories of business”.

15Modifications of the Taxes Act

In section 466(2)f1 insert at the appropriate place the following definition—

  • ““child trust fund business” shall be construed in accordance with section 431(2);”.

16Modifications of the Taxes Act

In section 755Af1 (as modified by the Insurance Companies Regulations) after paragraph (aa) in each of subsections (4) and (13) insert—

“(ab)

child trust fund business,”.

17Modifications of the Taxes Act

In paragraph 5(5) of Schedule 19AAf1 after “pension business,” insert “child trust fund business,”.

18Modification of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992

Regulation 19 specifies a modification of section 212 of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992f1 so far as concerns child trust fund business of insurance companies.

19Modification of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992

In section 212(2) after “pension business” insert “, child trust fund business”.

20Modification of the Capital Allowances Act 2001

Regulation 21 specifies a modification of section 256 of the Capital Allowances Act 2001f1 so far as concerns child trust fund business of insurance companies.

21Modification of the Capital Allowances Act 2001

In section 256(3)(a) after “pension business” insert “, child trust fund business”.

22Amendments to the Insurance Companies Regulations

Regulations 13(b), 15 and 16 of the Insurance Companies Regulations (which are superseded by regulations 11(b), 13 and 14 of these Regulations) shall cease to have effect.

Signature

Derek Twigg

John Heppell

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

14th October 2004

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations provide for the exemption from corporation tax of income and gains that arise to an insurance company providing child trust funds, so far as they relate to the company’s child trust fund business. They also provide for the profit from operating child trust fund business to be taxed in the same way as profits from the company’s Individual Savings Account business, and for losses arising one category to be set off against profits from the other.

Regulation 1 provides for citation and commencement and regulation 2 for interpretation. Regulations 3 to 22 make technical modifications to tax provisions, to achieve the above effect.

A full Regulatory Impact Assessment was prepared and issued on the introduction to Parliament of the Child Trust Funds Bill (passed as the 2004 Act) in November 2003.