Finance Act, 1978

Personal reliefs.

6.—(1) Where a deduction falls to be made from the total income of an individual for the year 1978-79 or any subsequent year of assessment in respect of relief to which the individual is entitled under the 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 1977-78

Amount to be deducted from total income for 1978-79 and subsequent years

(1)

(2)

(3)

£

£

Income Tax Act, 1967 :

section 138

(married man)

1,100

1,730

(single person)

 665

 865

(widowed person)

735

935

Finance Act, 1974 :

section 8 (age allowance)

(married man)

145

180

(single or widowed person)

45

80

(2) Section 6 of the Finance Act, 1974 , and section 6 of the Finance Act, 1977 , shall have effect subject to the provisions of this section.

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