Commentary on Sections Overview Part 4: Eligible employees Paragraph 32: Meaning of “associate”: trustees of employee benefit trust
3523.The material interest test in paragraph 28 of this Schedule applies to a wide range of associates. Where an employee has an interest in shares subject to a trust, this includes the trustees of that settlement. If that settlement is an employment benefit trust, paragraph 32 ensures the trustees of that employment benefit trust do not count as associates (unless they do so because of some other link). This paragraph derives from paragraph 35 of Schedule 14 to FA 2000.
3524.Chapter 11 of Part 7 defines the expression “employee benefit trust”, and deals with further matters arising when payments from employee benefit trusts are made.