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Schedule 7A to the principal Act is amended—
(a)
in the proviso to paragraph 3, by deleting the words “where the qualifying project is located within the States of Sabah,
Sarawak, the Federal Territory of Labuan, Perlis, the
Eastern Corridor of Peninsular Malaysia and such other areas which the Minister may from time to time determine or”;
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(b)
in paragraph 7—
(i)
by substituting for subparagraph (b) the following subparagraph:
“(b) for the basis period for which the company has been granted approval for investment tax allowance under the Promotion of Investments Act 1986 in respect of a promoted activity or promoted product for the period prescribed under the relevant provisions of that Act;”;
(ii)
in subparagraph (d), by substituting for the words “the period” the words “the basis period”; and
(iii)
by substituting for subparagraph (e) the following subparagraph:
“(e) for the basis period for which the company has been granted approval under section 31C of the Promotion of Investments Act 1986 prior to the coming into operation of section 37 of the Promotion of
Investments (Amendment) Act 2007 [Act A1318] in respect of a manufacturing activity or manufactured product for the period prescribed under paragraph 31E(2)(b) of that Act.”; and
(c)
in paragraph 9—
(i)
by deleting the definition of “Eastern Corridor of
Peninsular Malaysia”; and
(ii)
by inserting after the definition of “disposed of” the following definition:
‘ “factory” means portion of the floor areas of a building or an extension of a building used for the purposes of qualifying project to place or install plant or machinery or to store any raw material, or goods or materials manufactured prior to sale:
Provided that in respect of portion of the building or extension of the building used for the storage of raw material, or goods or materials, or both, it shall not be more
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than one-tenth of the total floor areas of that building or extension;’.