Finance Act 1971

16 Parent and child-repeal of aggregation provisions, and amendment of settlement provisions

(1) For the year 1972-73 and subsequent years of assessment—

(a) Chapter V of Part I of the Taxes Act (under which a child's investment etc. income is, in certain circumstances, to be treated as income of his or her parent) shall not have effect, and

(b) Chapter II of Part XVI of that Act (settlements by parents: treatment of income thereunder of unmarried children below the age of eighteen years, or between that age and twenty-one but not working regularly) shall not apply to any child who has attained the age of eighteen.

(2) In consequence of subsection (1) above, the said Act shall be amended for those years as follows—

(a) the following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (3) of section 168—

“(3) A claim for relief under this section may require that the relief be given only by reference to the income of the person sustaining the loss, without extending to the income of that person's wife or husband.”,

(b) in section 437(1), for all the words from “the child was unmarried ” to “working regularly ” there shall be substituted the words “the child was unmarried and below the age of eighteen ”,

(c) in section 438(2)(b) and section 440(1), for the words “within subsection (1)(a) or subsection (1)(b) of section 437 above” (wherever occurring) and the words “within the said subsection (1)(a) or subsection (1)(b) ” there shall be substituted the words “below the age of eighteen ” , and

(d) the following subsection shall be substituted for subsections (3) and (4) of the said section 437—

“(3) Income paid to or for the benefit of a child of a settlor shall not be treated as provided in subsection (1) above for any year of assessment in which the aggregate amount of the income paid to or for the benefit of that child, which, but for this subsection, would be so treated by virtue of this Chapter, does not exceed £5”.