Section 250 | Nominees and bare trustees

(1)Shares subscribed for, issued to, held by or disposed of for an individual by a nominee are treated for the purposes of this Part as subscribed for, issued to, held by or disposed of by the individual.

(2)If shares have been issued to a bare trust for two or more beneficiaries, this Part has effect (with the necessary modifications) as if—

(a)each beneficiary had subscribed as an individual for all of those shares, and

(b)the amount subscribed by each beneficiary was equal to the total amount subscribed on the issue of those shares divided by the number of beneficiaries.

(3)In subsection (2) and section 251 “shares” means shares which meet the requirements of section 173(2).