Finance Act, 1998

Amendment of section 403 (restriction on use of capital allowances for certain leased assets) of Principal Act.

31.Section 403 of the Principal Act is hereby amended in subsection (9) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b):

“(b) The reference in the definition of ‘the specified capital allowancess’ to machinery or plant to which this subsection applies is a reference to machinery or plant (not being a film of the kind mentioned in subsection (7)(a)) provided on or after the 13th day of May, 1986, for leasing by a lessor to a lessee (who is not a person connected with the lessor) under a lease the terms of which include an undertaking given by the lessee that, during a period (in this section referred to as ‘the relevant period’) which is not less than 3 years and which commences on the day on which the machinery or plant is first brought into use by the lessee, the machinery or plant so provided will—

(i) where it is so provided before the 4th day of March, 1998, be used by the lessee for the purposes only of a specified trade carried on in the State by the lessee, and

(ii) where it is so provided on or after that day, be used by the lessee for the purposes only of a specified trade carried on in the State by the lessee and that it will not be used for the purposes of any other trade, or business or activity other than the lessor's trade.”.