35.  Carry forward of business losses.-

Where an assessee sustains a loss in any assessment year under the head 'Income from business or profession' (not being a loss to which section 36 applies) and the loss cannot be wholly set-off under section 34, so much of the loss as has not been set-off, or the whole of the loss where the assessee has no income under any other head, shall be carried forward , subject to clause (v) of sub-section (1) of section 23, to the following assessment year and set-off against the profits and gains, if any, of such business or profession assessable for that year if such business or profession continues to be carried on by the assessee for that assessment year; and if the loss cannot be wholly set-off in this manner, the amount of the loss not so set-off shall be carried forward to the following assessment year, and so on, but no loss shall be carried forward to more than six assessment years immediately succeeding the assessment year for which the loss was first computed:

Provided that, where the said loss relates to an assessment year commencing on or after the first day of July, 1976, and is sustained by any such assessee, being the owner of an industrial unit which is declared sick and is being rehabilitated under a scheme approved by the Federal Government, as may be notified by the Central Board of Revenue in the official Gazette, this section shall have effect as if for the words "six assessment years" the words "ten assessment years" were substituted.