Malaysia legislation

Section 20

of FINANCE ACT 1995

Section 20

Schedule 3 to the principal Act is amended—

(a)

in paragraph 37b—

(i)

by substituting for subparagraph (c) the following subparagraph:

“(c) industrial, technical or vocational training approved by the Minister;”;

(ii)

by substituting for the comma at the end of subparagraph (d) the punctuation mark and word

“; or”; and

(iii)

by inserting after subparagraph (d) the following subparagraph:

“(e) research undertaken by a research and development company or a contract research and development company as defined in section 2 of the Promotion of Investments

Act 1986,”; and

(b)

in paragraph 62 by inserting after subparagraph (3) the following subparagraph:

“(4)  Notwithstanding paragraph 62(1) where an asset in relation to which the person has incurred qualifying plant expenditure for the purposes of a business of his is disposed of by way of gift, its disposal value shall be deemed to be zero if the gift is made to—

(a)

a technical or vocational training institute established and maintained by the government or a statutory body;

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(b)

a technical or vocational training institute as approved by the Minister; or

(c)

an approved research institute as defined in section 34b.”.

Amendment of Schedule 6