(1) This section applies to you if:
(a) you entered into a contract to acquire an item of plant before 1 July 2001 and you acquired it after 30 June 2001; or
(b) you started to construct an item of plant before 1 July 2001 and you complete its construction after 30 June 2001.
(2) Division 40 of the new Act applies to the plant.
(3) If you entered into the contract, or started to construct the plant, at or before 11.45 am, by legal time in the Australian Capital Territory, on 21 September 1999, you replace the component in the formula in subsection 40 - 70(1) or 40 - 75(1) of the new Act that includes the plant's effective life with the rate you would have been using if you had acquired it, or completed its construction, before 1 July 2001 and had used it, or had it installed ready for use, for the purpose of producing assessable income before that day.