Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988

616Other overseas pensions

(1)If and so long as provision is made by double taxation relief arrangements for a pension of a description specified in subsection (2) below to be exempt from tax in the United Kingdom and, by reason of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom having assumed responsibility for the pension, payments in respect of it are made under section 1 of the Overseas Pensions Act 1973, then, to the extent that those payments are made to, or to the widow or widower of, an existing pensioner, the provision made under the arrangements shall apply in relation to the pension, exclusive of any statutory increases in it, as if it continued to be paid by the government which had responsibility for it before that responsibility was assumed by Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom.

(2)The pensions referred to in subsection (1) above are pensions paid by—

(a)the Government of Malawi for services rendered to that Government or to the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in the discharge of governmental functions;

(b)the Government of Trinidad and Tobago in respect of services rendered to that Government in the discharge of governmental functions;

(c)the Government of the Republic of Zambia for services rendered to that Government or to the Government of Northern Rhodesia or to the Government of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in the discharge of governmental functions.

(3)If—

(a)immediately before 6th April 1973 a person resident in the United Kingdom was entitled to receive a pension as or as the widow or widower of an existing pensioner, and

(b)by reason of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom having assumed responsibility for the pension, payments in respect of it are made under section 1 of the [1973 c. 21.] Overseas Pensions Act 1973,

then, if and so long as the pension is received by that person or, where that person is an existing pensioner, by his or her widow or widower, the provisions of this Act shall apply in relation to it, exclusive of any statutory increases in it, as if it continued to be paid by the government or other body or fund which had responsibility for it before that responsibility was assumed by Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom.

(4)In this section—

• “double taxation relief arrangements” means arrangements specified in an Order in Council making any such provisions as are referred to in section 788;

• “existing pensioner”, in relation to a pension, means a person by virtue of whose service the pension is payable and who retired from that service before 6th April 1973; and

• “statutory increases”, in relation to a pension, means so much (if any) of the pension as is paid by virtue of the application to it of any provision of the [1971 c. 56.] Pensions (Increase) Act 1971;

and in this subsection “pension” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Overseas Pensions Act 1973.