Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) The amount included in your assessable income under subsection 40 - 285(1) or 104 - 240(1) of the new Act as a result of a balancing adjustment event occurring for:
(a) plant that you acquired at or before 11.45 am, by legal time in the Australian Capital Territory, on 21 September 1999; or
(b) a depreciating asset that is not plant and that you acquired before 1 July 2001;
is reduced (but not below nil) if:
(c) for a paragraph (a) case--there would have been a reduction under subsection 42 - 192(2) of the former Act as a result of that event; or
(d) for a paragraph (b) case--there would have been a reduction under subsection 42 - 192(2) of the former Act as a result of that event if the asset were plant.
(2) The amount of the reduction is the amount worked out under subsection 42 - 192(2) of the former Act.
(3) There is no reduction under subsection (1) to an amount included in your assessable income under subsection 104 - 240(1) if the balancing adjustment event results in a discount capital gain under Division 115.
(4) However, you can choose not to make a reduction under subsection (1) and instead take advantage of the discount capital gain.
(5) Subsection (6) applies to an entity (the transferee ) if there is roll - over relief under section 40 - 340 of the new Act as a result of a balancing adjustment event happening to a depreciating asset held by the transferee.
(6) Subsections (1), (2), (3) and (4) apply also to the transferee if:
(a) for a depreciating asset that is plant:
(i) the transferor referred to in section 40 - 340 of the new Act started to hold the plant under a contract entered into at or before 11.45 am, by legal time in the Australian Capital Territory, on 21 September 1999; or
(ii) the transferor constructed it and the construction started at or before that time; or
(iii) the transferor acquired it in some other way at or before that time; or
(iv) the transferor acquired it from an entity that was working out the decline in value of the plant under subsection 40 - 10(3) or 40 - 12(3) of this Act and subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph applied to that entity or to the earliest successive transferor; or
(b) for a depreciating asset that is not plant:
(i) the transferor started to hold the asset under a contract entered into before 1 July 2001; or
(ii) the transferor constructed it and the construction started at or before that day; or
(iii) the transferor acquired it in some other way before that day.