Finance Act, 1958

Meaning of “director”, “employment” and “employment to which this Part of this Act applies.”

26.—(1) In this Part of this Act, “director” means—

(a) in relation to a body corporate the affairs whereof are managed by a board of directors or similar body, a member of that board or similar body,

(b) in relation to a body corporate the affairs whereof are managed by a single director or similar person, that director or person,

(c) in relation to a body corporate the affairs whereof are managed by the members themselves, a member of the body corporate,

and includes any person in accordance with whose directions or instructions the directors of a body corporate, defined in accordance with the preceding provisions of this subsection, are accustomed to act, but a person shall not, within the meaning of this subsection, be deemed to be á person in accordance with whose directions or instructions the directors of a body corporate are accustomed to act by reason only that those directors act on advice given by him in a professional capacity.

(2) In this Part of this Act, “employment” means an employment such that any emoluments thereof would fall to be assessed under Schedule E, and references to persons employed by, or employees of, a body corporate include any person who takes part in the management of the affairs of the body corporate and is not a director thereof.

(3) Subject to the provisions of this subsection and subsection (4) of this section, the employments to which this Part of this Act applies are employments the emoluments of which, estimated for the year of assessment in question according to the provisions of the Income Tax Acts and on the basis that they are employments to which this Part of this Act applies, and without any deduction being made under Rule 9 of the Rules applicable to Schedule E in respect of money expended in performing the duties thereof, are fifteen hundred pounds or more:

Provided that—

(a) where a person is employed in two or more employments by the same body corporate, and the total of the emoluments of those employments, for the year of assessment in question, estimated as aforesaid, is fifteen hundred pounds or more, all those employments shall be treated as employments to which this Part of this Act applies, and

(b) where a person is a director of a body corporate, all employments in which he is employed by the body corporate shall be treated as employments to which this Part of this Act applies.

(4) All the directors of, and persons employed by, a body corporate over which another body corporate has control shall be treated for the purposes of the proviso to subsection (3) of this section (but not for any other purpose) as if they were directors of, or, as the case may be, as if the employment were an employment by, that other body corporate.