Finance (Taxation of Profits of Certain Mines) Act, 1974
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Investment allowance in respect of exploration expenditure. |
6.—(1) Where a person who is carrying on the trade of working a qualifying mine incurs, on or after the 6th day of April, 1974, exploration expenditure in relation to which section 2 has effect, there shall, in addition to any mine development allowance granted in respect of such expenditure, be made to him, for the year of assessment for which such mine development allowance is granted, an allowance (which shall be known as an exploration investment allowance) equal to one-fifth of such expenditure and section 245 (6) of the Act of 1967 shall apply to an exploration investment allowance as it applies to a mine development allowance. | |
(2) No allowance shall be made under this section in respect of exploration expenditure— | ||
(a) incurred before the 6th day of April, 1974, whether or not such expenditure is, by virtue of any provision of this Act, the Finance Act, 1946 , or the Act of 1967, deemed to have been incurred on or after the said date, or | ||
(b) which is deemed to be incurred by a person other than the person who incurred the expenditure: | ||
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in respect of expenditure deemed, under section 4, to have been incurred by a body corporate other than the body corporate which incurred the expenditure. |