Statutory Instruments
2007 No. 2120
INCOME TAX
The Personal Equity Plan (Amendment) Regulations 2007
Made
25th July 2007
Laid before the House of Commons
25th July 2007
Coming into force
6th April 2008
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Personal Equity Plan (Amendment) Regulations 2007 and shall come into force on 6th April 2008.
Amendment of the Personal Equity Plan Regulations 1989
2.The Personal Equity Plan Regulations 1989( 3 ) are amended as follows.
3. For regulation 4(1) substitute—
“ (1) A plan which, immediately before 6th April 2008, is—
(a) held by a plan investor, and
(b) exempt from tax under regulation 17,
shall be treated, on and from the 6th April 2008, as an account, set up as a stocks and shares account and made up of a single stocks and shares component only, within the meaning in regulation 4(1) of the Individual Savings Account Regulations 1998 ( 4 ) . ” .
Revocation of the Personal Equity Plan Regulations 1989
4. —(1)The Personal Equity Plan Regulations 1989 (other than regulation 4(1)) shall cease to have effect for the tax year 2008-09 and subsequent tax years.
(2) Regulation 4(1) of those Regulations shall cease to have effect on 5th April 2009.
Frank Roy
Alan Campbell
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
25th July 2007
2005 c. 5 ; section 695 was amended by the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs Act 2005 (c. 11) to replace a reference to the Commissioners for Inland Revenue with a reference to the Commissioners for Revenue and Customs.
1992 c. 12 ; section 151 was amended by section 85 of the Finance Act 1993 (c. 34) , section 64(2) of the Finance Act 1995 (c. 4) and paragraph 436 of Schedule 1 to the Income Tax (Trading and Other Income) Act 2005.
S.I. 1989/469 ; regulation 4(1) was amended by S.I. 1990/678 , 1991/733 and 2774 , 1998/1869 and 2001/923 .
S.I. 1998/1870 ; relevantly amended by S.I. 2007/2119 .