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Settlements: application of section 792 for the year of assessment 1997-98 in relation to certain dispositions to certain individuals residing with, and sharing normal household expenses with, the disponer

(b) the Revenue Commissioners are satisfied that the application of the amendments to section 439 of the Income Tax Act, 1967, effected by subsections (1) and (2) of section 13 of the Finance Act, 1995, which subsections are re-enacted in subsections (1) and (2) of section 792, would give rise to hardship,

(b) the payment is not made under a liability incurred for a valuable and sufficient consideration and, in the case of a company not resident in the State, incurred wholly and exclusively for the purposes of a trade carried on by the company in the State through a branch or agency, and for the purposes of this paragraph a payment within subparagraph (ii) or (iii) of section 792(1)(b) shall be treated as incurred for valuable and sufficient consideration.

(1) Where by virtue of section 792 any income tax becomes chargeable on and is paid by the person by whom the disposition was made, that person shall be entitled—

(2) Where any person obtains in respect of any allowance or relief a repayment of income tax in excess of the amount of the repayment to which that person would but for section 792 have been entitled, an amount equal to the excess shall be paid by that person to the trustee or other person to whom the income is payable by virtue or in consequence of the disposition or, where there are 2 or more such persons, shall be apportioned among those persons as the case may require.

(13) Sections 88, 484, 485, 485A, 485B, 486, 486A and 767, subparagraphs (ii) and (iii) of subsection (1)(b), and subsection (3), of section 792 and section 848 are repealed.