Finance Act 2009

Amendment of section 7 (waiver of exemption) of Principal Act.

21.— Section 7 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (3) by substituting “subsection (3), (7) or (9) of section 7B” for “section 7B(3)”, and

(b) by inserting the following after subsection (5):

“(6) Where a person cancelled his or her waiver of exemption before 1 July 2008 then, for the purposes of applying section 12E, the adjustment period (within the meaning of that section or, as the context may require, the period to be treated as the adjustment period in accordance with section 4C(11)) in relation to any capital good the tax chargeable on that person’s acquisition or development of which that person was obliged to take into account when that person made that cancellation, shall be treated as if it ended on the date on which that cancellation had effect.”.