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535. Disposals where capital sums derived from assets.

(1) In this section, "capital sum" means any money or money's worth not excluded from the consideration taken into account in the computation of the gain under Chapter 2 of this Part.

(2)

(a) Subject to sections 536 and 537(1) and to any other exceptions in the Capital Gains Tax Acts, there shall be for the purposes of those Acts a disposal of an asset by its owner where any capital sum is derived from the asset notwithstanding that no asset is acquired by the person paying the capital sum, and this paragraph shall apply in particular to -

(i) capital sums received by means of compensation for any kind of damage or injury to an asset or for the loss, destruction or dissipation of an asset or for any depreciation or risk of depreciation of an asset,

(ii) capital sums received under a policy of insurance of the risk of any kind of damage or injury to, or the loss or depreciation of, an asset,

(iii) capital sums received in return for forfeiture or surrender of a right or for refraining f

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