Malaysia legislation

Section 13

of FINANCE (NO. 2) ACT 2000

Section 13

Section 50 of the principal Act is amended—

(a)

by substituting for subsection (2) the following subsection:

“(2) Any premium for any insurance or deferred, annuity within the meaning of subsection 49(3), or for any insurance on education or medical benefits within the meaning of subsection 49(4), or for any insurance policy determined by the Employees Provident Fund

Board referred to in subsection 49(lC), which has been paid by the wife or the husband in the year of assessment—

(a)

where subsection 45(2) applies, shall be deemed to have been paid by the husband of the wife who elects or by the wife of the husband who elects, as the case may be; or

(b)

where the wife or the husband has no total income, shall be deemed to have been paid by the husband of that wife who has no total income or the wife of that husband who has no total income, as the case may be:

Provided that where paragraph 45(2)(b) applies, or the husband has no total income, any amount paid by the husband shall be deemed to have been paid by the wife who has been allowed a deduction under section 45A.”; and

(b)

by substituting for subsection (3) the following subsection:

“(3) Where subsection 45(2) applies for the year of assessment, and in that year the wife who elects or the husband who elects has made or suffered the making of a contribution as an employee to an approved scheme or as a self-employed person within the meaning of the

Employees Provident Fund Act 1991 [Act 452] to the

Employees Provident Fund—

(a)

the contribution shall be deemed to have been made by the husband or the wife in whose name the assessment was made, as the case may be, in that year; and

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(b)

the reference to a contract of employment in paragraph 49(2)(a) shall be deemed to include a reference to a contract of employment of the wife who elects or the husband who elects, as the case may be.”.

Amendment of section 60