Income Tax Act, 1967.

Ship building and repair.

400.—(1) In the case of a company carrying on the trade of building or repairing ships, the following provisions shall apply for the purposes of relief from income tax under this Chapter:

(a) repairs carried out within the State to a ship shall be regarded as the manufacture within the State of goods and, to the extent to which any such repairs have been carried out within the State to a ship which is wholly owned by persons who are not ordinarily resident in the State, the ship shall be regarded as goods which are manufactured within the State and exported by the person who manufactures them and any amount receivable in payment for repairs carried out within the State to a ship shall be regarded as an amount receivable from the sale of goods;

(b) where, as respects any year of assessment, the company, by notice in writing given to the inspector within twelve months after the end of that year, so elects, this Chapter shall apply in the case of that year—

(i) as if all ships built by the company within the State had been exported by the company,

(ii) as if all ships to which repairs were carried out by the company within the State were, to the extent of such repairs, goods exported by the company, and

(iii) as if amounts receivable by the company in payment for the building within the State or of the repair within the State of ships were amounts receivable from the sale of goods exported by the company out of the State.

(2) In subsection (1) (a) (b) any reference to repair or building includes a reference to repair or building effected at any time.