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The following section shall be added to Part VIII of the Income Tax Act, 1952:
228A. If a claimant proves that during the whole of the year of assessment he has been a blind person on the register of blind persons maintained by the appropriate local authority under sub-paragraph (g) of subsection (4) of section twenty-nine of the National Assistance Act, 1948, he shall be
§ entitled to a deduction from the amount of income tax with which he is chargeable equal to tax at the standard rate on one hundred pounds".—[Mr. H. Wilson.]
§ Brought up, and read the First time.
§ Motion made, and Question put, That the Clause be read a Second time:—
§ The Committee divided: Ayes 192, Noes 245.