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731. Chargeable gains accruing to unit trusts.

(1) In this section, "capital distribution" means any distribution from a unit trust, including a distribution in the course of terminating the unit trust, in money or money's worth except a distribution which in the hands of the recipient constitutes income for the purposes of income tax.

(2) For the purposes of the Capital Gains Tax Acts and without prejudice to section 567 and sections 574 to 578, chargeable gains accruing to a unit trust in any year of assessment shall be assessed and charged on the trustees of the unit trust.

(3) The trustees of a unit trust shall for the purposes of the Capital Gains Tax Acts be treated as being a single and continuing body of persons (distinct from the persons who may from time to time be the trustees), and that body shall be treated as being resident and ordinarily resident in the State unless the general administration of the unit trust is ordinarily carried on outside the State and the trustees or a majority of them for the time being are not

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