INCOME TAX Citation, commencement and effect 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Friendly Societies (Taxation of Transfers of Business) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 17th February 1995, but except as otherwise provided shall have effect in relation to transfers, amalgamations and conversions taking place on or after 1st January 1990. Interpretation 2 In these Regulations— “directive society” means a friendly society to which section 37(2) of the Friendly Societies Act 1992 applies; “non-directive society” means a friendly society other than a directive society; “section 37(3) society” means a non-directive society which— falls within subsection (3) of section 37 of the Friendly Societies Act 1992, and is a friendly society to which subsection (8) of that section applies; “the Taxes Act ” means the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988. Transfer of long term business of an insurance company to a friendly society 3 1 The provisions of the Corporation Tax Acts which apply on the transfer of the whole or part of the long term business of an insurance company to another company shall have effect where the transferee is a friendly society. 2 This regulation shall have effect in relation to transfers taking place on or after 2nd July 1990. Modifications of the Corporation Tax Acts in certain cases 4 1 In the case of— a the transfer of the whole or part of the business of a friendly society to another friendly society; or b the amalgamation of two or more friendly societies; or c the transfer of the whole or part of the business of a friendly society to a company which is not a friendly society; or d the conversion of a friendly society into a company which is not a friendly society; or such of the provisions of the Corporation Tax Acts as are specified in paragraph (2) below and apply in relation to that case (being provisions which apply by virtue of section 463(2) of the Taxes Act) shall each have effect as if the words “in accordancewith a scheme sanctioned by a court under section 49 of the Insurance Companies Act 1982 ” were omitted. 2 The provisions of the Corporation Tax Acts specified in this paragraph are— a section 267A(1) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1970 b sections 12(7A) , 440(2) and 444A(1) of the Taxes Act, c section 152A(1) of the Capital Allowances Act 1990 , d paragraph 6(1) of Schedule 8 to the Finance Act 1990 , and e sections 211(1), 213(5), 214(11) and 214A(7) of the Taxation of Chargeable Gains Act 1992 . Modifications of section 440 of the Taxes Act in certain cases 5 1 This regulation applies to the following cases, that is to say— a the transfer of the whole or part of the business of a directive society or a section 37(3) society to a non-directive society; b the transfer of the whole or part of the business of a non-directive society to a directive society or a section 37(3) society; c the amalgamation of a directive society or a section 37(3) society and a non-directive society; d the transfer of the whole or part of the business of a non-directive society to a company which is not a friendly society; and e the conversion of a non-directive society into a company which is not a friendly society. 2 In any case to which this regulation applies, section 440(2) of the Taxes Act, in so far as it applies in relation to that case by virtue of section 463(2) of the Taxes Act, shall not have effect in relation to any assets which— a cease to be within the category in paragraph (d) of subsection (4) of section 440 of the Taxes Act and come within the category in paragraph (e) of that subsection; or b cease to be within the category in paragraph (e) of that subsection and come within the category in paragraph (d) of that subsection. Tim Wood Andrew Mitchell Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 25th January 1995