{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2004/schedule-36/paragraph-20B",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/12",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/36/paragraph/20B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20B",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies ... in relation to an individual where—\n(a) during any part of the period that is the active membership period in relation to an arrangement relating to the individual under a registered pension scheme, the individual is a relevant overseas individual, and\n(b) notice of intention to rely on this paragraph is given to His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in accordance with regulations made by the Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.\n(2) Chapter 15A of Part 9 of ITEPA 2003 (pension income: lump sums under registered pension schemes) has effect in relation to the individual as if the amount specified in section 637R of that Act (individual’s lump sum and death benefit allowance) were the individual’s enhanced lump sum and death benefit allowance (as determined under paragraph 20H of this Schedule).\n(2A) For the purposes of paragraph 20H, a lump sum and death benefit allowance enhancement factor, determined in accordance with paragraphs 20C and 20D, operates in relation to the individual.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) For the purposes of this Part an individual is a relevant overseas individual at any time if, at that time, the individual either is not a relevant UK individual or—\n(a) is a relevant UK individual by virtue only of paragraph (c) of section 189(1) (individuals resident in UK at some time in previous five tax years), and\n(b) is not employed by a person resident in the United Kingdom.\n(6) In this paragraph and in paragraphs 20C and 20D “the active membership period”, in relation to an arrangement relating to the individual, is the period—\n(a) beginning with the date on which the benefits first began to accrue to or in respect of the individual under the arrangement or, if later, 6th April 2006, and\n(b) ending on 5th April 2024.\n(7) But if benefits ceased to accrue to or in respect of the individual under the arrangement at a time before 5th April 2024, the active membership period is to be treated as having ended at that time.\n(8) Where this paragraph applies, for the purposes of this Part a lump sum is not an uncrystallised funds pension lump sum (see paragraph 4A of Schedule 29) if... the amount given by the formula in sub-paragraph (9) is less than 25% of the lump sum.\n(9) The formula is—\nA-B4where—\nA is—\n(a)in the case of an individual in relation to whom a relevant protection provision applies, the individual’s protected lump sum and death benefit allowance (as specified in that provision for the purposes of paragraph 20H);\n(b)in any other case, £1,073,100;\nB is the amount that would be the previously-used amount within the meaning of section 637S of ITEPA 2003 (availability of individual’s lump sum and death benefit allowance) if a relevant benefit crystallisation event within the meaning of that section had occurred immediately before the lump sum is paid.\n(10) In this paragraph “relevant protection provision” has the meaning given in paragraph 20H(3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 36 paras. 20A-20G and cross-headings inserted (for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by Finance Act 2024 (c. 3), Sch. 9 paras. 78, 124 (with Sch. 9 paras. 125-132A) (as amended by S.I. 2024/356, regs. 1, 4; and by S.I. 2024/1012, regs. 1(2)(3), 17)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 36 para. 20B(1) omitted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by virtue of The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 8(10)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 36 para. 20B(2)(2A) substituted for Sch. 36 para. 20B(2) (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 8(10)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 36 para. 20B(3) omitted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by virtue of The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 8(10)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Sch. 36 para. 20B(4) omitted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by virtue of The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 8(10)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 36 para. 20B(8) omitted (18.11.2024 for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by virtue of The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) (No. 2) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/1012), regs. 1(2)(3), 8(10)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 36 para. 20B(9) substituted (for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/698), regs. 1(2)(6), 5(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Sch. 36 para. 20B(10) inserted (for the tax year 2024-25 and subsequent tax years) by The Pensions (Abolition of Lifetime Allowance Charge etc) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/698), regs. 1(2)(6), 5(5)(b)"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:16.113356+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."
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