Commentary on Sections Overview Part 4: Eligible employees Paragraph 33: Meaning of “associate”: trustees of discretionary trust
3525.The material interest test in paragraph 28 of this Schedule is applied to a wide range of associates including, potentially, the trustees of a settlement. This paragraph applies where the company shares are held in a discretionary trust (ordinary meaning) of which the employee is a beneficiary but with only a very remote expectation of receiving anything from the trust. In such a case the trustees of that discretionary trust do not count as associates (unless they do so because of some other link). This paragraph derives from paragraph 36 of Schedule 14 to FA 2000.