Finance Act 2007

Amendment of Schedule 26A (donations to approved bodies, etc.) to Principal Act.

27.— (1) Schedule 26A to the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in Part 1—

(i) by deleting “in the State” in each place it occurs in paragraphs 3 to 7, and

(ii) by deleting paragraphs 8 to 16, and paragraph 18,

and

(b) in Part 2 by substituting the following for the definition of “approved body” in paragraph 1:

“ ‘ approved body ’ means any body or institution which may be approved of by the Minister for Finance and which—

(a) provides any course one of the conditions of entry to which is related to the results of the Leaving Certificate Examination, a matriculation examination of a recognised university in the State or an equivalent examination held outside the State, or

(b) (i) is established on a permanent basis solely for the advancement of one or more approved subjects,

(ii) contributes to the advancement of that subject or those subjects on a national or regional basis, and

(iii) is prohibited by its constitution from distributing to its members any of its assets or profits;”.

(2) Subsection (1) applies as on and from 1 February 2007.