{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2004/section-231",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2004/section-231.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/12",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2004",
  "path": "section/231",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "231",
  "heading": "Cash balance arrangements: uprating of opening value",
  "text": "(1) This section applies for adjusting the opening value of the individual’s rights as calculated under section 230(4).\n(2) The opening value is to be increased by the appropriate percentage.\n(3) The appropriate percentage is the percentage (if any) by which the consumer prices index for the September before the start of the tax year is higher than it was for the previous September.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 231(3) substituted (with effect in accordance with Sch. 17 Pt. 2 of the amending Act) by Finance Act 2011 (c. 11), Sch. 17 para. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 230-237 modified (21.7.2009) by Finance Act 2009 (c. 10), Sch. 35 para. 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 231 modified (6.4.2006) by The Pensions Schemes (Application of UK Provisions to Relevant Non-UK Schemes) Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/207), regs. 1(1), 9 (as amended (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(7) of the amending S.I.) by S.I. 2011/1751, regs. 1(1), 12(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Ss. 160-274, 281, Schs. 30-35 in force at 6.4.2006 but any power to make an order or regulations under those provisions may be exercised at any time after Royal Assent, see s. 284"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/12/section/231",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T17:08:09.921968+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}