Section 73 | Death of life tenant: exclusion of chargeable gain.

(1)Where, by virtue of section 71(1), the assets forming part of any settled property are deemed to be disposed of and reacquired by the trustee on the occasion when a person becomes (or would but for a disability become) absolutely entitled thereto as against the trustee, then, if that occasion is the death of a person entitled to an interest in possession in the settled property—^F1

(a)no chargeable gain shall accrue on the disposal, and

(b)if on the death the property reverts to the disponer, the disposal and reacquisition under that subsection shall be deemed to be for such consideration as to secure that neither a gain nor a loss accrues to the trustee, and shall, if the trustee had first acquired the property at a date earlier than 31 March 1982, be deemed to be at that earlier date.^F2

(1A)Subsection (1)(b) above shall be treated as having effect in relation to a sub-fund settlement if the property does not revert to the trustees of the principal settlement in relation to that sub-fund settlement by reason only that—^F3

(a)a sub-fund election is or has been made in respect of another sub-fund of the principal settlement, and^F3

(b)the property becomes comprised in that other sub-fund settlement on the death of the person entitled to the interest in possession.^F3

(2)Where the ... interest referred to in subsection (1) above is an interest in part only of the settled property to which section 71 applies, subsection (1)(a) above shall not apply but any chargeable gain accruing on the disposal shall be reduced by a proportion corresponding to that represented by the part.^F4

(2A)Where the interest in possession referred to in subsection (1) above is one to which the person becomes entitled on or after 22nd March 2006, subsections (1) and (2) above apply in relation to that interest only if—^F5

(a)immediately before the person's death, the interest falls within section 72(1B), or^F5

(b)the person dies under the age of 18 years and, immediately before the person's death, section 71D of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (age 18-to-25 trusts) applies to the property in which the interest subsists.^F5

(3)The last sentence of subsection (1) of section 72 and subsections (3) to (6) of that section shall apply for the purposes of this section as they apply for the purposes of section 72(1).^F6F7