Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

INCOME TAX ASSESSMENT ACT 1997 - SECT 417.25

  (1)   If:

  (a)   you use a * depreciating asset, or you have it * installed ready for use, for a purpose of undertaking * transitioned petroleum activities; and

  (b)   before the * Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty entered into force, you or another entity used the asset, or you or another entity had it installed ready for use, for a purpose of undertaking transitioned petroleum activities;

to the extent that you use the asset, or you have it installed ready for use, for that purpose, you are taken to use the asset, or to have it installed ready for use, entirely for a * taxable purpose.

  (2)   For the purposes of subsection   40 - 25(2), if:

  (a)   you can deduct an amount for a decline in value of the asset; and

  (b)   apart from subsection   (1), you would not be able to deduct an amount, or would only be able to deduct a lesser amount, for that decline in value; and

  (c)   the * transitioned petroleum activities are wholly or partly undertaken, or to be undertaken, in relation to the * JPDA;

to the extent that the activities are so undertaken, or so to be undertaken, the part of the asset's decline in value that is attributable to your use of the asset, or your having it * installed ready for use, for a * taxable purpose is reduced to 10% of what it would be apart from this subsection.

  (3)   For the purposes of Subdivision   40 - C, if:

  (a)   you can deduct an amount for a decline in value of the asset; and

  (b)   apart from subsection   (1), you would not be able to deduct an amount, or would only be able to deduct a lesser amount, for that decline in value;

in working out the second element of the * cost of the asset, disregard any amount that you pay, and any expenditure that you incur, on or after the day on which the * Timor Sea Maritime Boundaries Treaty entered into force.