Finance Act 1977

23 Child benefit and other benefits in respect of children

(1) In section 219(2) of the Taxes Act (social security benefits exempt from tax) the word " and " shall be omitted and after " 1971 " there shall be inserted the words " and payments of child benefit ".

(2) The amendments of the Income Tax Acts made by section 32(2), (3)(a) and (d), (4), (5) and (6) of the [1976 c. 40.] Finance Act 1976 shall not have effect.

(3) Where for the year 1977-78 an individual is (or apart from this subsection would be) assessable to income tax in respect of payments in respect of a child, being payments to which this subsection applies, his income shall for the purposes of the Income Tax Acts be deemed to include only so much, if any, of the payments in respect of that child as exceeds £52 or, if the payments in question are payments for a part only of the year, a proportionate part of that amount.

(4) Subsection (3) above applies to payments by way of—

(a) child's special allowance or guardian's allowance under the [1975 c. 14.] Social Security Act 1975 or the [1975 c. 15.] Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 ; or

(b) an allowance under section 70 of either of those Acts; or

(c) an increase under Chapter III of Part II of either of those Acts of a widow's allowance, widowed mother's allowance, child's special allowance, retirement pension or invalid care allowance.

(5) Subsections (1) and (2) above shall be deemed to have come into force on 4th April 1977.