{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007/section-640",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007/section-640.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/3",
  "legislation_title": "Income Tax Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-act-2007",
  "path": "section/640",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "640",
  "heading": "Small holdings: personal representatives",
  "text": "(1) In relation to a transfer with accrued interest or transfer without accrued interest of securities that form part of a deceased person's estate, the deceased's personal representatives are an excluded transferor or excluded transferee unless the nominal value of securities held by the deceased's personal representatives as such exceeds £5,000 on any day—\n(a) in the tax year in which the interest period ends, or\n(b) in the previous tax year.\n(2) In relation to a transfer with unrealised interest of securities that form part of a deceased person's estate, the deceased's personal representatives are an excluded transferor or excluded transferee unless the nominal value of securities held by the deceased's personal representatives as such exceeds £5,000 on any day—\n(a) in the tax year in which the settlement day falls, or\n(b) in the previous tax year.\n(3) In relation to a transfer of variable rate securities that form part of a deceased person's estate, the deceased's personal representatives are an excluded transferor unless the nominal value of securities held by the deceased's personal representatives as such exceeds £5,000 on any day in the relevant tax year or the previous tax year.\n(4) In subsection (3) “the relevant tax year” has the meaning given by section 639(4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/3/section/640",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:13:03.599581+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."
}