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Finance Act, 1996

Personal reliefs.

3.—(1) Where a deduction falls to be made from the total income of an individual for the year of assessment 1996-97 or any subsequent year of assessment in respect of relief to which the individual is entitled under a provision mentioned in column (1) of the Table to this subsection and the amount of the deduction would, but for this section, be an amount specified in column (2) of the said Table, the amount of the deduction shall, in lieu of being the amount specified in the said column (2), be the amount specified in column (3) of the said Table opposite the mention of the amount in the said column (2).

TABLE

Statutory provision

Amount to be deducted from total income for the year 1995-96

Amount to be deducted from total income for the year 1996-97 and subsequent years

(1)

(2)

(3)

£

£

Income Tax Act, 1967 :

section 138

(married person)

5,000

5,300

(widowed person bereaved in the year of assessment)

5,000

5,300

(widowed person)

3,000

3,150

(single person)

2,500

2,650

section 138A

(additional allowance for widowed persons and others in respect of children)

(widowed person)

2,000

2,150

(other person)

2,500

2,650

section 141

(incapacitated child)

  600

  700

Finance Act, 1969 :

section 3

(housekeeper taking care of incapacitated person)

5,000

7,500

Finance Act, 1971 :

section 11

(blind person)

  600

  700

(both spouses blind)

1,400

1,600

(2) Section 3 of the Finance Act, 1985 , section 4 of the Finance Act, 1986 , section 4 of the Finance Act, 1990 , and section 3 of the Finance Act, 1995 , shall have effect subject to the provisions of this section.

(3) The First Schedule shall have effect for the purpose of supplementing subsection (1).