Finance Act 1988

7(1)The section set out in sub-paragraph (2) below shall have effect in substitution for section 262 (widow’s bereavement allowance) in relation to deaths occurring during the year 1989-90, and the section set out in sub-paragraph (3) below shall have effect in substitution for that section in relation to deaths occurring during the year 1990-91 or any subsequent year of assessment.U.K.

(2)The section first referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above is—

262 Widow’s bereavement allowance.

Where a man dies in the year 1989-90 and for that year he is entitled to the higher (married person’s) relief under section 257(1), or would be so entitled but for an election under section 261 or 287, his widow shall be entitled—

(a)for that year of assessment, to a deduction from her total income of an amount equal to the amount referred to in section 259(2), and

(b)(unless she marries again before the beginning of it) for the year 1990-91, to a deduction from her total income of an amount equal to the amount specified in section 257A(1) for that year.

F1(3). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 3 para. 7(3) repealed (27.7.1999 with effect for the year 2001-02 and subsequent years of assessment) by 1999 c. 16, s. 139, Sch. 20 Pt. III(5), note 2