(1) This section applies if:
(a) a company becomes a PDF during a year of income and is still a PDF at the end of the year of income; and
(b) the PDF component for the year of income is a nil amount; and
(c) the year of income is the 1997 - 98 year of income or a later one.
(2) The company's taxable income of the year of income is the amount that, if the period (the notional year ) beginning at the start of the year of income and ending immediately before the company becomes a PDF were a year of income of the company, would be the company's taxable income of the notional year.