Finance (Taxation of Profits of Certain Mines) Act, 1974

Termination of relief from corporation profits tax.

17.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), relief from corporation profits tax shall not be given under section 6 of the Act of 1956 to a company for any accounting period of the company ending on or after the 6th day of April, 1974, whether the company commenced to trade in relation to the working of a qualifying mine before, on or after the said date.

(2) In the case of any such accounting period of a company part of which is before the 6th day of April, 1974, and part of which is on or after the said date, the profits of the company shall be apportioned between the parts in proportion to the length of the parts and so much only of the profits as is apportioned to the second-mentioned part shall be regarded, for the purposes of subsection (1), as profits of the company of an accounting period ending on or after the said date.