Finance Act 2010

Chapter 3

Income Tax

Amendment of section 122 (preferential loan arrangements) of Principal Act.

4.— As respects the year of assessment 2010 and subsequent years of assessment, section 122 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1)(a)—

(a) by inserting the following after the definition of “preferential rate”:

“ ‘qualifying loan’ has the meaning assigned to it by section 244(1)(a);”,

and

(b) by substituting for paragraph (i) of the definition of “the specified rate” the following:

“(i) in a case where the preferential loan is a qualifying loan, the rate of 5 per cent per annum or such other rate (if any) prescribed by the Minister for Finance by regulations,”.