Finance Act, 1998

Amendment of section 843 (capital allowances for buildings used for third level educational purposes) of Principal Act.

44.Section 843 of the Principal Act is hereby amended in subsection (1)—

(a) by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “approved institution”:

“‘approved institution’ means—

(a) an institution of higher education within the meaning of section 1 of the Higher Education Authority Act, 1971 , or

(b) an institution in the State in receipt of public funding which provides courses to which a scheme approved by the Minister for Education and Science under the Local Authorities (Higher Education Grants) Acts, 1968 to 1992, applies;”,

and

(b) by the substitution, in the definition of “qualifying premises”, of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b):

“(ii) is let to an approved institution,”.