Income Tax Act, 1967.

Companies carrying on life assurance business.

216.—(1) Where an assurance company carries on life assurance business in conjunction with assurance business of any other class, the life assurance business of the company shall for the purposes of this Act be treated as a separate business from any other class of business carried on by the company.

(2) In ascertaining whether an assurance company has sustained a loss in respect of its life assurance business for the purpose of setting off such loss against the profits of any other business carried on by the company, or for the purpose of obtaining repayment of tax under section 307, any income of the company derived from the investments of its life assurance fund shall be treated as part of the profits of the company acquired in that business.