Finance (No.2) Act 2023

CHAPTER 4

Income Tax, Corporation Tax and Capital Gains Tax

Amendment of section 97B of Principal Act (deduction for retrofitting expenditure)

24. Section 97B of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in subsection (1)—

(i) by the insertion of the following definition:

“ ‘Act of 1982’ means the Housing (Private Rented Dwellings) Act 1982 ;”,

and

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

“(b) occupied by a tenant under a tenancy registered under Part 7 of the Act of 2004 by the person chargeable, or occupied by a tenant and which is a dwelling to which Part II of the Act of 1982 applies, and”,

(b) in subsection (7)(b), by the substitution of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (i):

“(i) in respect of the qualifying premises concerned, the person chargeable is in breach of their obligations under Part 3 of the Act of 2004 or, as the case may be, of the terms of the tenancy in the case of a dwelling to which Part II of the Act of 1982 applies;”,

and

(c) in subsection (11)(a), by the substitution of the following subparagraph for subparagraph (i):

“(i) in respect of the qualifying premises concerned, that person is in breach of their obligations under Part 3 of the Act of 2004 or, as the case may be, of the terms of the tenancy in the case of a dwelling to which Part II of the Act of 1982 applies,”.