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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4Life Policies, Etc

Husband and wife

7Subsection (7) of section 19 shall be omitted.

8The references in section 19 to an individual's spouse shall include any person who was that individual's spouse at the time the insurance or contract was made, unless the marriage was dissolved before 6th April 1979.

9Where an election under section 23 of the [1971 c. 68.] Finance Act 1971 is in force, the relief to which either the husband or the wife is entitled under section 19 in respect of an insurance or contract on the life of the other or made by the other shall not be affected by paragraph 3 of Schedule 4 to that Act (which requires relief to be determined as if the husband and the wife were not married).

10Where, throughout a year of assessment, a woman is a married woman living with her husband, then—

(a)if no election under section 38 is in force, section 21 and paragraph 15 below shall apply as if any relief to which the wife is entitled under section 19 were relief to which the husband is entitled ; and

(b)if an election under section 38 is in force, section 21 and paragraph 15 below shall apply separately to the amounts paid by each of them, but as if for the limit specified in section 21 there were substituted, in relation to each of them, a limit of £750 or one-twelfth of their total income, whichever is the greater, plus any amount by which the payments in respect of which relief can be given to the other fall short of the limit so substituted.