Malaysia legislation

Section 10

of FINANCE ACT 1995

Section 10

Section 47 of the principal Act is amended—

(a)

by substituting for subsection (1) the following subsection:

“(1)  In the case of an individual resident for the basis year for a year of assessment who in that basis year had a wife living together with him, there shall, subject to subsections (3) and (4), be allowed for that year of assessment a deduction of—

(a)

three thousand ringgit for the wife; and

(b)

a further two thousand five hundred ringgit for the wife if she is a disabled person.”; and

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(b)

in subsection (3) by substituting for the words “subsections

(1)

and (2)” the words “paragraph (1)(a) and subsection

(2)

”.

Amendment of section 48