Section 29 - Amendment of section 80JJAA - Finance Act, 2018

Amendment of section 80JJAA 29 . In section 80JJAA of the Income-tax Act, in the Explanation occurring after sub-section (2), in clause (ii), with effect from the 1st day of April, 2019, (a) in the proviso, after the words manufacturing of apparel , the words or footwear or leather products shall be inserted; (b) after the proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely: Provided further that where an employee is employed during the previous year for a period of less than two hundred and forty days or one hundred and fifty days, as the case may be, but is employed for a period of two hundred and forty days or one hundred and fifty days, as the case may be, in the immediately succeeding year, he shall be deemed to have been employed in the succeeding year and the provisions of this section shall apply accordingly; .