(1) Division 974 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 applies for the purposes of determining whether, for the purposes of Division 820 of that Act, an interest is a debt interest or an equity interest at any time on or after 1 July 2001 (whether or not the debt and equity test amendments apply to transactions in relation to that interest at that time).
(2) In this section, debt and equity test amendments has the same meaning as in Part 4 of Schedule 1 to the New Business Tax System (Debt and Equity) Act 2001 .