
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Open-ended Investment Companies (Tax) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 8th August 1997.
2 
In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Open-ended Investment Companies (Tax) Regulations 1997 and “regulation” means a regulation of the principal Regulations.
3 
For regulation 3 there shall be substituted—“
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(1) Subject to the modifications and exceptions specified in this Part, and the modifications specified in Parts III to V, of these Regulations, the Tax Acts and the 1992 Act shall have effect in relation to—
(a) open-ended investment companies,
(b) holdings in, and the assets of, such companies, and
(c) transactions involving such companies,
in like manner as the manner in which they have effect in relation to authorised unit trusts, to rights under, and the assets subject to, such trusts and to transactions for purposes connected with such trusts.
(2) References in the Tax Acts and the 1992 Act to companies, to holdings in, and the assets of, companies and to transactions involving companies, shall accordingly have effect (or shall not have effect as the case may be) in relation to open-ended investment companies, to holdings in, and the assets of, such companies, and to transactions involving such companies, in like manner as the manner in which they have effect (or do not have effect) in relation to authorised unit trusts, to rights under, and the assets subject to, such trusts, and to transactions for purposes connected with such trusts.”
4 
In regulation 5 after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—“
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to references in any of the provisions specified in paragraph (3) or to references in provisions which include reference, whether made expressly or by implication, to an open-ended investment company.”
5 
In regulation 7(1)(b) for the word “paragraph” there shall be substituted the word “sub-paragraph”.
6 
In regulation 11(2)(b) for the word “subsection” there shall be substituted the word “paragraph”.
Bob Ainsworth
Jim Dowd
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
18th July 1997