Finance (1909-10) Act 1910

68 Relief in respect of children.

(1) If any individual who has been assessed or charged to income tax, or has paid income tax either by deduction or otherwise, claims and proves, in manner prescribed by the Income Tax Acts, that his total income from all sources, although exceeding one hundred and sixty pounds, does not exceed five hundred pounds, and that he has a child or children living and under the age of sixteen years at the commencement of the year for which the income tax is charged, he shall be entitled, in respect of every such child, to relief from income tax equal to the amount of the income tax upon ten pounds.

The expression " child " and the expression " children " in this provision includes stepchild or stepchildren, but does not include illegitimate child or illegitimate children : Provided that where the parents of any illegitimate child or children shall, after the birth of such child or children, have married each other, such illegitimate child or children shall be included in the expression " child " and " children. "

(2) Any relief under this section shall be given either by reduction of the assessment, or repayment of the excess which has been paid, or by both those means, as the case may require.

(3) Subsections (2) and (3) of section nineteen of the [7 Edw. 7. c. 13.] Finance Act, 1907, shall be construed as if this section were mentioned therein as well as section eight of the [61 & 62 Vict. c. 10.] Finance Act, 1898, and section fifty-four of the [16 & 17 Vict. c. 34.] Income Tax Act, 1853, and the provisions of the Income Tax Acts, which relate to claims for exemption, relief, or abatement, or the proof to be given with respect to those claims shall apply to claims for relief under this section, and the proof to be given with respect to those claims.