Income Tax Act, 1967.

PART XXVIII

Special Provisions for Taxation of Settlors, etc., in Respect of Settled or Transferred Income

Chapter I

Revocable Dispositions, Dispositions for Short Periods and Certain Dispositions in Favour of Children

Income under revocable dispositions.

438.—(1) Any income of which any person is able, or has, at any time since the 5th day of April, 1922, been able, without the consent of any other person by means of the exercise of any power of appointment, power of revocation or otherwise howsoever by virtue or in consequence of a disposition made directly or indirectly by himself, to obtain for himself the beneficial enjoyment shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be the income of the person who is or was able to obtain the beneficial enjoyment thereof, and not to be the income of any other person.

(2) Where any such power as aforesaid can be exercised by a person with the consent of the wife or the husband of that person, the power shall, for the purposes of subsection (1), be deemed to be exercisable without the consent of another person, except where the husband and wife are living apart either by agreement or under an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.

(3) Where any such power as aforesaid is exercisable by the wife or the husband of the person who made the disposition, the power shall, for the purposes of subsection (1), be deemed to be exercisable by the person who made the disposition.