Finance (No.2) Act 2023

Amendment of section 784A of Principal Act (approved retirement fund)

18. Section 784A of the Principal Act is amended, in subsection (1B), by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a):

“(a) in the case of a loan made—

(i) to the individual beneficially entitled to the assets in an approved retirement fund or to any person connected with that individual, or

(ii) to a close company, where the individual beneficially entitled to the assets in an approved retirement fund, or any person connected with that individual, is a participator in that close company,

the amount to be regarded as a distribution for the purposes of this section is an amount equal to the value of the assets of the approved retirement fund used to make such a loan or used as security for such a loan,”.