(l)      any amount contributed by a person that is an employer during the year of assessment for the benefit of or on behalf of any employee or former employee of the employer or for any dependant or nominee of a deceased employee or former employee of that employer to any pension fund, provident fund or retirement annuity fund in terms of the rules of that fund: Provided that for the purposes of this paragraph a partner in a partnership must be deemed to be an employee of the partnership and a partnership must be deemed to be the employer of the partners in that partnership;

[Paragraph (l) substituted by section 8 of Act 104 of 1979, amended by section 30 of Act 30 of 1998, section 10 of Act 94 of 1983, section 10 of Act 3 of 2008 and section 271 of Act 28 of 2011 and substituted by section 27(1)(l) of Act 31 of 2013 effective on 1 March 2016 (Date of operation in section 27(1)(l) of Act 31 of 2013 as substituted by section 122(1)(b) of Act 43 of 2014) and section 25 of Act 23 of 2018 effective on 1 March 2018]