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Section 320B Health-screening and medical check-ups

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Amendments

Section 320B inserted by Finance 2009 section 55(4) for 2009-10 and later tax years.

(1) No liability to income tax arises in respect of the provision for an employee, on behalf of an employer, of a health-screening assessment or a medical check-up.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply—

(a) to more than one health-screening assessment provided in a tax year by any one employer or by any of a number of persons who are employers of the employee at the same time, or

(b) to more than one medical check-up so provided.

(3) In this section—

“health-screening assessment” means an assessment to identify employees who might be at particular risk of ill-health, and

“medical check-up” means a physical examination of the employee by a health professional for (and only for) determining the employee’s state of health.

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