S 511A repealed by No 114 of 2010, s 3 and Sch 1 item 37, applicable in relation to the 2010-11 year of income for a taxpayer and later years of income. For saving provisions, see note under Part
XI
heading. S 511A formerly read:
SECTION 511A EXEMPTION FOR INTEREST IN FOREIGN HOLDING COMPANY OF FOREIGN REAL PROPERTY COMPANY
511A(1)
Interest in holding company disregarded.
If:
(a)
at the end of the notional accounting period of a foreign company (the
"
holding company
"
), the taxpayer had an interest in the holding company that consisted of shares included in a class of shares that were quoted on the stock market of an approved stock exchange; and
(b)
the holding company requirements set out in subsection (2) are satisfied; and
(c)
the subsidiary company requirements set out in subsection (3) are satisfied;
the interest is disregarded for the purposes of the application of the operative provision to the taxpayer in relation to the holding company in respect of that notional accounting period.
511A(2)
Holding company requirements.
The holding company requirements are that:
(a)
at the end of the notional accounting period, either:
(i)
the holding company was included by an approved stock exchange in a class of companies designated by the stock exchange as engaged in carrying on one or more of the activities mentioned in subparagraph
511(b)(ii)
; or
(ii)
the holding company was included by an international sectoral classification system named in regulations made for the purposes of section
499
or, until regulations are so made, by an international sectoral classification system named in Schedule 5, in a class of companies designated by the system as engaged in carrying on one or more of the activities mentioned in subparagraph
511(b)(ii)
; and
(b)
throughout the notional accounting period, or the part of that period in which the taxpayer had the interest in the holding company, as the case may be, shares in the holding company that were included in the class mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) were widely held, and actively traded on a regular basis, on a stock market of an approved stock exchange.
511A(3)
Subsidiary company requirements.
The subsidiary company requirements are that, throughout the notional accounting period, or the part of that period in which the taxpayer had the interest in the holding company, as the case may be:
(a)
one or more other foreign companies were wholly-owned subsidiaries of the holding company; and
(b)
if there was only one such subsidiary
-
that subsidiary was principally engaged in the active carrying on of one or more of the activities mentioned in subparagraph
511(b)(ii)
; and
(c)
if there were 2 or more such subsidiaries
-
the principal activities of all the subsidiaries, considered together, were the active carrying on of one or more of the activities mentioned in subparagraph
511(b)(ii)
.
S 511A inserted by No 82 of 1994.