{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-life-assurance-premium-relief-regulations-1978/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1978/1159",
  "legislation_title": "The Income Tax (Life Assurance Premium Relief) Regulations 1978",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/income-tax-life-assurance-premium-relief-regulations-1978",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "These Regulations supplement Schedule 4 to the Finance Act 1976 which (as amended by Schedule 3 to the Finance Act 1978) provides a new system for income tax relief on life assurance premiums.\nAs from 6th April 1979 an individual who pays a premium on which relief is due will normally be entitled to deduct and retain an appropriate sum for relief and the Inland Revenue will reimburse the life office for the consequent deficiency in its premium receipts.\nRegulation 3 provides for the furnishing to life offices by persons paying premiums of such information as may be necessary for determining the entitlement to make deductions. Regulation 4 provides for rounding to a multiple of one new penny or one new halfpenny any payment which after deduction of the appropriate relief is not such a multiple. Regulations 5 to 10 deal with the claim procedure under which life offices recover the deficiency in premium receipts. Regulations 11 and 12 give the Revenue power to obtain necessary information from policyholders and life offices.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1978/1159/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T19:31:11.490816+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}