Finance Act, 2001

Amendment of section 133 (exemption of certain policies of assurance) of Finance Act, 1993.

226.—(1) Section 133 of the Finance Act, 1993 , is amended by the substitution in subsection (2)(b) of the following for subparagraph (ii):

“(ii) at the date of the disposition, the disponer is neither domiciled nor ordinarily resident in the State;”.

(2) This section shall have effect in relation to a policy comprised in a gift or an inheritance where the date of the gift or the date of the inheritance is on or after 15 February 2001 and the policy—

(a) comes into the beneficial ownership of the disponer on or after 15 February 2001, or

(b) becomes subject to the disposition on or after that date without having been previously in the beneficial ownership of the disponer.