Finance Act, 1982

Special allowance in respect of P.R.S.I. for 1982-83.

6.—(1) In this section—

“insurable employment” has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 (1) of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981 ;

“specified emoluments” means emoluments within the meaning of section 111 (4) of the Income Tax Act, 1967 , which arise to a specified employed contributor from an insurable employment;

“specified employed contributor” means a person who is an employed contributor for the purposes of the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1981 , but does not include a person—

(a) who is an employed contributor for those purposes by reason only of sect ion 65 (1) of that Act,

(b) in whose case section 10(7) of that Act has effect, or

(c) to whom Article 7 of the Social Welfare (Modifications of Insurance) Regulations, 1979 (S.I. No. 87 of 1979), applies.

(2) For the purpose of ascertaining the amount of the income on which an individual (being an individual who is a specified employed contributor) is to be charged to income tax for the year 1982-83 in a case where the total income of the individual for the said year consists of or includes specified emoluments (including in a case where the individual is a husband who is assessed to tax in accordance with the provisions of section 194 of the Income Tax Act, 1967 , any specified emoluments of his wife which are deemed to be income of his by that section for the purposes referred to in that section)—

(i) a deduction of £312 shall be made from so much, if any, of the specified emoluments (but not including, in the case where the individual is a husband assessed as aforesaid, the specified emoluments, if any, of his wife) as arise to the individual, and

(ii) in the case where the individual is a husband assessed as aforesaid, a deduction of £312 shall be made from so much, if any, of the specified emoluments as arise to his wife.

(3) Any deduction to be made under this section from specified emoluments shall be given in priority to any deduction to be made under section 138B of the Income Tax Act, 1967 , from those emoluments.

(4) All such provisions of the Income Tax Acts as apply in relation to the deductions specified in sections 138 to 143 of the Income Tax Act, 1967 , shall apply in relation to a deduction under this section.