Finance Act 1977

51Trusts for persons in receipt of attendance allowance

(1)Paragraph 19 of Schedule 5 to the Finance Act 1975 (trusts for mentally disabled persons) shall be amended as follows.

(2)In sub-paragraph (1) after the words " a mentally disabled person " there shall be inserted the words " or of a person in receipt of an attendance allowance ".

(3)In sub-paragraphs (2)(a) and (3) for the words "the mentally disabled person " there shall be substituted the words " the person mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above ".

(4)In sub-paragraph (2)(b) after the words "for the benefit of the mentally disabled person" there shall be inserted the words " or, as the case may be, for the care or maintenance of the person in receipt of the attendance allowance ".

(5)At the end of sub-paragraph (4) there shall be added the words " and ' attendance allowance ' means an allowance under section 35 of the Social Security Act 1975 or the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Act 1975 ".