{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1994/schedule-7A/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1994/schedule-7A/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1994/9",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-1994",
  "path": "schedule/7A/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A contract falls within this paragraph if it relates only to a risk which is situated outside the United Kingdom.\n(2) The question of whether a risk is situated in the United Kingdom shall be determined in accordance with the Table in sub-paragraph (3).\n(3) This is the Table referred to in sub-paragraph (2)—\nWhere—\nThe risk is situated in—\nthe contract relates to a building, to some or all of the contents of a building or to a building and some or all of its contents\nthe country or territory in which the building is situated\nthe contract relates to vehicles of any type\nthe country or territory in which the vehicle is registered\nthe contract covers travel or holiday risks and has a duration of four months or less\nthe country or territory in which the policyholder entered into the contract\nthe contract does not fall within any of the previous entries and the policyholder is an individual\nthe country or territory in which the policyholder is habitually resident on the date on which the contract is entered into\nthe contract does not fall within any of the previous entries\nthe country or territory in which the establishment of the policyholder to which the contract relates is situated on the date on which the contract is entered into.\n(4) For the purposes of the last entry in the Table, “establishment”, in relation to a policyholder (“P”), means—\n(a) P’s head office or any of P’s agencies or branches, or\n(b) any permanent presence of P (which need not take the form of a branch or agency and, for example, may consist of an office managed by P’s staff or by a person who is independent of P but who has permanent authority to act for P as if the person were an agency).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 7A para. 8(2) substituted (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3649, art. 346(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 7A para. 8(2) substituted (24.2.2022 in relation to contracts of insurance entered into on or after that date) by Finance Act 2022 (c. 3), s. 73(2)(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 7A para. 8(3)(4) inserted (24.2.2022 in relation to contracts of insurance entered into on or after that date) by Finance Act 2022 (c. 3), s. 73(3)(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2012/5",
      "affecting_title": "Welfare Reform Act 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "nisi/2015/2006",
      "affecting_title": "The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1994/9/schedule/7A/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:34:21.412655+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}