Malaysia legislation

Section 11

of PROMOTION OF INVESTMENTS (AMENDMENT) ACT 2014

Section 11

Amendment of section 21f

(a)

by substituting for the shoulder note the following shoulder note:

“Computation of income during tax relief period in respect of pioneer status granted under subsection 6(1)

for an application under subsection 5(1d)”;

(b)

in subsection (1)—

(i)

by inserting after the words “testing laboratory” the words “or upgrading an existing medical devices testing laboratory in Malaysia,”; and

(ii)

by deleting the words “or a company participating in a promoted activity or producing a promoted product in an industrial linkage programme”;

and

(c)

in subsection (2)—

(i)

in paragraph (b), by substituting for the full stop at the end of the paragraph a colon; and

(ii)

by inserting the following proviso:

“Provided that in the case of a company that is already in operation and carries out activities in relation to the upgrading of a medical devices testing laboratory in Malaysia, the income of

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the company for each accounting period of its pioneer business shall be the value-added income of the company and subsections 21c(2a), (3)

and (4) shall apply mutatis mutandis.”.

Deletion of section 21g