§ The provisions of Sections twenty-nine, thirty, and forty-three of the Finance Act, 1916 (which give relief from Income Tax in certain cases for the current Income Tax year), shall have effect as if herein re-enacted and in terms made applicable to the Income Tax year beginning on the sixth day of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen:
§ Provided that—
- (a) for the words from "and in calculating, to the end of Sub-section (2) of the said Section thirty, there shall be substituted the words "and in calculating the earned income on which relief is to be given under this Section the deductions required to be made from earned income under Sub-section (2) of Section nineteen of the Finance Act, 1907, as amended by any other Act, shall not be made from the pay unless and except in so far as the amount of those deductions exceeds the aggregate amount of the earned income other than the pay and of the unearned income; and
- (b) the said Section thirty, as so amended, shall apply to any person who during the current Income Tax year has served, or serves, for not less than three months as master or a member
1068 of the crew of any ship or fishing boat as it applies to any of the persons mentioned in that Section."
§ Brought up, and read the first time.
§ Motion made, and Question proposed, "That the Clause be read a second time."
§ Mr. PETOMay I ask that we shall not pass this Clause to-night, because I have handed in a manuscript Amendment adding a new Sub-section(c).
§ Mr. BONAR LAWWe will not go beyond the Second Heading of this Clause.
§ Question put, and agreed to.
§ Motion made, and Question, "That the Chairman do report Progress, and ask leave to sit again"—[Mr. Bonar Law]— put, and agreed to.
§ Committee report Progress; to sit again upon Thursday.
§ The remaining Orders were read, and postponed.
§ It being after Half-past Eleven of the clock, Mr. DEPUTY-SPEAKER adjourned the House, without Question put, pursuant to the Standing Order.
§ Adjourned at one minute before Twelve o'clock.