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(7) References in this section to machinery or plant to which this subsection applies are references to machinery or plant (not being either or both a film negative and its associated soundtrack, or a film tape or a film disc) provided on or after the 25th day of January, 1984, for leasing where the expenditure incurred on the provision of the machinery or plant (or, in the case of a film to which section 6 or 7 of the Irish Film Board Act, 1980, applies, the cost of the making of the film) has been or is to be met directly or indirectly, wholly or partly, by the Industrial Development Authority, the Irish Film Board, the Shannon Free Airport Development Company Limited, or Údarás na Gaeltachta; but this subsection shall not apply to machinery or plant provided for leasing on or after the 13th day of May, 1986, unless—

(a) the machinery or plant is a film to which section 6 or 7 of the Irish Film Board Act, 1980, applies, or

(7) References in this section to machinery or plant to which this subsection applies are references to machinery or plant (not being either or both a film negative and its associated soundtrack, or a film tape or a film disc) provided on or after the 25th day of January, 1984, for leasing where the expenditure incurred on the provision of the machinery or plant (or, in the case of a film to which section 6 or 7 of the Irish Film Board Act, 1980, applies, the cost of the making of the film) has been or is to be met directly or indirectly, wholly or partly, by the Industrial Development Authority, the Irish Film Board, the Shannon Free Airport Development Company Limited, or Údarás na Gaeltachta; but this subsection shall not apply to machinery or plant provided for leasing on or after the 13th day of May, 1986, unless—

(a) the machinery or plant is a film to which section 6 or 7 of the Irish Film Board Act, 1980, applies, or

(7) References in this section to machinery or plant to which this subsection applies are references to machinery or plant (not being either or both a film negative and its associated soundtrack, or a film tape or a film disc) provided on or after the 25th day of January, 1984, for leasing where the expenditure incurred on the provision of the machinery or plant (or, in the case of a film to which section 6 or 7 of the Irish Film Board Act, 1980, applies, the cost of the making of the film) has been or is to be met directly or indirectly, wholly or partly, by the Industrial Development Authority, the Irish Film Board, the Shannon Free Airport Development Company Limited, or Údarás na Gaeltachta; but this subsection shall not apply to machinery or plant provided for leasing on or after the 13th day of May, 1986, unless—

(a) the machinery or plant is a film to which section 6 or 7 of the Irish Film Board Act, 1980, applies, or

(II) of the company and all companies of which it is a 75 per cent subsidiary (within the meaning of section 9) and all companies which are its 75 per cent subsidiaries (within the same meaning), or

(III) of the company and all companies (being companies which, by virtue of the law of the territory in which the company is resident for the purposes of tax, are so resident in that territory; and for this purpose, “tax”, in relation to such a territory, means any tax imposed in the territory which corresponds to corporation tax in the State) of which it is a 75 per cent subsidiary (within the meaning of section 9) or which are its 75 per cent subsidiaries (within the same meaning),

(c) Where a company carries on a trade of operating ships in the course of which a ship is let on charter, paragraph (b) shall not apply so as to treat the letting on charter as the leasing of machinery or plant if apart from this section the letting would be regarded for the purposes of Case I of Schedule D as part of the activities of the trade.

then, subject to section 80A(2)(c), income from the company’s trade of leasing shall be treated as including—

(a) in respect of the expenditure on which no allowance has been or will be made under section 283, or

(5A)(a) In this subsection “appointed day” has the same meaning as in section 284(3A).

(b) In relation to capital allowances in respect of machinery or plant to which section 284(3A) applies—

(b) in respect of which no allowance on account of wear and tear to be made under section 284 has been or will be increased under section 285.

(b) in respect of which no allowance on account of wear and tear to be made under section 284 has been or will be increased under section 285.

(5) Sections 305(1)(b), 308(4) and 420(2) shall not apply in relation to capital allowances—

(II)section 305(1)(b) shall apply,

(4) (a) Where in an accounting period a company carrying on a trade of leasing incurs a loss in that trade and any specified capital allowances have been treated by virtue of section 307 or 308 as trading expenses in arriving at the amount of the loss, the relevant amount of the loss shall not be available—

(i) where no capital allowances, other than the specified capital allowances, have been treated by virtue of section 307 or 308 as trading expenses in arriving at the amount of the loss, the amount of the specified capital allowances, or

(ii) where, in addition to the specified capital allowances, other capital allowances have been so treated by virtue of section 307 or 308, the lesser of—

(4) (a) Where in an accounting period a company carrying on a trade of leasing incurs a loss in that trade and any specified capital allowances have been treated by virtue of section 307 or 308 as trading expenses in arriving at the amount of the loss, the relevant amount of the loss shall not be available—

(i) where no capital allowances, other than the specified capital allowances, have been treated by virtue of section 307 or 308 as trading expenses in arriving at the amount of the loss, the amount of the specified capital allowances, or

(ii) where, in addition to the specified capital allowances, other capital allowances have been so treated by virtue of section 307 or 308, the lesser of—

(5) Sections 305(1)(b), 308(4) and 420(2) shall not apply in relation to capital allowances—

(II)sections 308(4) and 420(2) shall apply,

“chargeable period or its basis period” has the same meaning as in section 321(2);

(3) (a) Notwithstanding section 381, where relief is claimed under that section in respect of a loss sustained in a trade of leasing, the amount of that loss, in so far as by virtue of section 392 it is referable to the specified capital allowances, shall be treated for the purposes of subsections (1) and (3)(b) of section 381 as reducing profits or gains of that trade of leasing only and shall not be treated as reducing any other income.

(3) (a) Notwithstanding section 381, where relief is claimed under that section in respect of a loss sustained in a trade of leasing, the amount of that loss, in so far as by virtue of section 392 it is referable to the specified capital allowances, shall be treated for the purposes of subsections (1) and (3)(b) of section 381 as reducing profits or gains of that trade of leasing only and shall not be treated as reducing any other income.

(b) Where paragraph (a) applies in the case of any claimant to relief under section 381—

(ii) notwithstanding section 392(2) (but without prejudice to paragraph (a) and to the order in which income is to be treated as reduced under section 381(3)(b)), the claimant may specify the extent to which any reduction of income treated as occurring by virtue of section 381 is to be referred to so much of the loss as is attributable to the loss, if any, actually sustained in the trade of leasing, the specified capital allowances or any other capital allowances, and, where the claimant so specifies, section 394 shall apply in accordance with the claimant’s specification and not in accordance with section 392(2).

(ii) notwithstanding section 392(2) (but without prejudice to paragraph (a) and to the order in which income is to be treated as reduced under section 381(3)(b)), the claimant may specify the extent to which any reduction of income treated as occurring by virtue of section 381 is to be referred to so much of the loss as is attributable to the loss, if any, actually sustained in the trade of leasing, the specified capital allowances or any other capital allowances, and, where the claimant so specifies, section 394 shall apply in accordance with the claimant’s specification and not in accordance with section 392(2).

(3) (a) Notwithstanding section 381, where relief is claimed under that section in respect of a loss sustained in a trade of leasing, the amount of that loss, in so far as by virtue of section 392 it is referable to the specified capital allowances, shall be treated for the purposes of subsections (1) and (3)(b) of section 381 as reducing profits or gains of that trade of leasing only and shall not be treated as reducing any other income.

(i) any limitation imposed by section 393 on the amount of capital allowances which may be taken into account under section 392 shall be referred, as far as may be, to the specified capital allowances rather than to any other capital allowances, and

(ii) notwithstanding section 392(2) (but without prejudice to paragraph (a) and to the order in which income is to be treated as reduced under section 381(3)(b)), the claimant may specify the extent to which any reduction of income treated as occurring by virtue of section 381 is to be referred to so much of the loss as is attributable to the loss, if any, actually sustained in the trade of leasing, the specified capital allowances or any other capital allowances, and, where the claimant so specifies, section 394 shall apply in accordance with the claimant’s specification and not in accordance with section 392(2).

(ii) notwithstanding section 392(2) (but without prejudice to paragraph (a) and to the order in which income is to be treated as reduced under section 381(3)(b)), the claimant may specify the extent to which any reduction of income treated as occurring by virtue of section 381 is to be referred to so much of the loss as is attributable to the loss, if any, actually sustained in the trade of leasing, the specified capital allowances or any other capital allowances, and, where the claimant so specifies, section 394 shall apply in accordance with the claimant’s specification and not in accordance with section 392(2).

(i) any limitation imposed by section 393 on the amount of capital allowances which may be taken into account under section 392 shall be referred, as far as may be, to the specified capital allowances rather than to any other capital allowances, and

(ii) notwithstanding section 392(2) (but without prejudice to paragraph (a) and to the order in which income is to be treated as reduced under section 381(3)(b)), the claimant may specify the extent to which any reduction of income treated as occurring by virtue of section 381 is to be referred to so much of the loss as is attributable to the loss, if any, actually sustained in the trade of leasing, the specified capital allowances or any other capital allowances, and, where the claimant so specifies, section 394 shall apply in accordance with the claimant’s specification and not in accordance with section 392(2).

(i) for relief under section 396(2), except to the extent that it can be set off under that section against the company’s income from the trade of leasing only, or

(5) Sections 305(1)(b), 308(4) and 420(2) shall not apply in relation to capital allowances—

(II)sections 308(4) and 420(2) shall apply,

(ii) to be surrendered by means of group relief group relief except to the extent that it could be set off under section 420A against income of a trade of leasing carried on by the claimant company if paragraph (b) of the definition of relevant trading loss in section 420A were deleted .

(ii) to be surrendered by means of group relief group relief except to the extent that it could be set off under section 420A against income of a trade of leasing carried on by the claimant company if paragraph (b) of the definition of relevant trading loss in section 420A were deleted .

(9) (a) (i) In this subsection, “specified trade”, in relation to a lessee lessee or lessor, means a trade which throughout the relevant period consists wholly or mainly of the manufacture of goods (including activities which, if the lessee lessee or lessor were to make a claim for relief in respect of the trade under Part 14, would be regarded for the purposes of that Part as the manufacture of goods).

(iii) As respects a person who carries on a trade of leasing and who incurred expenditure on the provision before the 20th day of April, 1990, of machinery or plant for leasing under an obligation entered into before that date by the lessor and a lessee who carries on a trade which but for section 443(6) would be a specified trade, this subsection shall apply as if the trade carried on by the lessee were a specified trade.

(8) The reference in the definition of “the specified capital allowances” to machinery or plant to which this subsection applies is a reference to machinery or plant provided for leasing by a lessor to a lessee in the course of the carrying on by the lessor of relevant trading operations within the meaning of section 445 or 446, and—

(8A) Where, but for the deletion of sections 445 and 446, any machinery or plant would, for the purposes of the definition of ‘the specified capital allowances’, be machinery or plant to which subsection (8) applies, then, notwithstanding the deletion of those sections, the machinery or plant shall be machinery or plant to which subsection (8) applies for those purposes and this section shall apply with any modifications necessary to give effect to this subsection.

(8) The reference in the definition of “the specified capital allowances” to machinery or plant to which this subsection applies is a reference to machinery or plant provided for leasing by a lessor to a lessee in the course of the carrying on by the lessor of relevant trading operations within the meaning of section 445 or 446, and—

(8A) Where, but for the deletion of sections 445 and 446, any machinery or plant would, for the purposes of the definition of ‘the specified capital allowances’, be machinery or plant to which subsection (8) applies, then, notwithstanding the deletion of those sections, the machinery or plant shall be machinery or plant to which subsection (8) applies for those purposes and this section shall apply with any modifications necessary to give effect to this subsection.

(B) chargeable gains on the disposal of machinery or plant acquired by the company in the course of its leasing trade; and for this purpose the amount of such a gain shall be computed without regard to any adjustment made under section 556(2).