As respects the year of assessment 1999-2000 and subsequent years of assessment, Chapter 1 of Part 7 of the Principal Act is hereby amended -

(a) in section 187, by the substitution, in subsection (1), of the following for paragraph (a):

"(a) in the case of an individual referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of 'specified amount' in section 461(1) (inserted by the Finance Act, 1999), £8,200, and",

and

(b) in section 188, by the substitution of the following for subsection (2):

"(2) In this section, 'the specified amount' means, subject to section 187(2) -

(a) in the case of an individual referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of 'specified amount' in section 461(1) (inserted by the Finance Act, 1999), £13,000, and

(b) in any other case £6,500.".