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Inheritance Tax Act 1984

CHAPTER II INTERESTS IN POSSESSION, REVERSIONARY INTERESTS AND SETTLEMENT POWERS

  • Section 49 Treatment of interests in possession.
  • Section 49A Immediate post-death interest
  • Section 49B Transitional serial interests
  • Section 49C Transitional serial interest: interest to which person becomes entitled during period 22nd March 2006 to 5th October 2008
  • Section 49D Transitional serial interest: interest to which person becomes entitled on death of spouse or civil partner on or after 6th October 2008
  • Section 49E Transitional serial interest: contracts of life insurance
  • Section 50 Interests in part, etc.
  • Section 51 Disposal of interest in possession.
  • Section 52 Charge on termination of interest in possession.
  • Section 53 Exceptions from charge under section 52.
  • Section 54 Exceptions from charge on death
  • Section 54A Special rate of charge where settled property affected by potentially exempt transfer.
  • Section 54B Provisions supplementary to section 54A.
  • Section 55A Purchased settlement powers
  • Section 55 Reversionary interest acquired by beneficiary.
  • Section 56 Exclusion of certain exemptions.
  • Section 57 Application of certain exemptions.
  • Section 57A Relief where property enters maintenance fund.
  1. Chapter II · INTERESTS IN POSSESSION, REVERSIONARY INTERESTS AND SETTLEMENT POWERS
  2. Transitional serial interest: interest to which person becomes entitled during period 22nd March 2006 to 5th October 2008

Section 49C | Transitional serial interest: interest to which person becomes entitled during period 22nd March 2006 to 5th October 2008 F1

From legislation.gov.uk

(1)Where a person (“B”) is beneficially entitled to an interest in possession in settled property (“the current interest”), that interest is a transitional serial interest for the purposes of this Chapter if the following conditions are met.

(2)Condition 1 is that—

(a)the settlement commenced before 22nd March 2006, and

(b)immediately before 22nd March 2006, the property then comprised in the settlement was property in which B, or some other person, was beneficially entitled to an interest in possession (“the prior interest”).

(3)Condition 2 is that the prior interest came to an end at a time on or after 22nd March 2006 but before 6th October 2008.F2

(4)Condition 3 is that B became beneficially entitled to the current interest at that time.

(5)Condition 4 is that—

(a)section 71A below does not apply to the property in which the interest subsists, and

(b)the interest is not a disabled person's interest.

Notes

  1. F1

    Ss. 49A-49E inserted (22.3.2006) by Finance Act 2006 (c. 25), s. 156, Sch. 20 para. 5(1)(2)

  2. F2

    Word in s. 49C(3) substituted (retrospective to 6.4.2008) by Finance Act 2008 (c. 9), s. 141(1)(a)(2)

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