Finance Act 1966

36 Termination of free depreciation in development districts.

(1) Any district which, immediately before 17th January 1966, was a development district for the purposes of sections 38 and 39 of the [1963 c. 25.] Finance Act 1963 (which relate to the computation of writing down allowances for new machinery and plant, or, as the case may be, for new mining expenditure, in certain districts in Great Britain and in districts within Northern Ireland) shall be deemed to have ceased to be such a development district on that date and, save by virtue of subsection (7) of the said section 38, no district shall be treated as such a development district as respects any period falling on or after that date.

(2) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, the said subsection (7) (which makes provision for the application of the said section 38 to a district in Great Britain which ceases to be a development district and, as applied by subsection (3) of the said section 39, makes the like provision in relation to the said section 39) shall have effect as if the words " in Great Britain " were omitted.

(3) Notwithstanding anything in the said subsection (7), the said section 38 or 39 shall not apply in relation to a writing down allowance in respect of, or of any contribution towards, any expenditure if a relevant grant within the meaning of section 35(3) of this Act is made in respect of that expenditure and that grant—

(a) by reason of that expenditure being incurred in connection with an area in relation to which the powers conferred by Part I of the [1960 c. 18.] Local Employment Act 1960 are for the time being exercisable, is (or, but for any reduction by reference to a grant under section 1 of the [1963 c. 19.] Local Employment Act 1963, would be) payable at a higher rate than that at which it would otherwise have been payable; or

(b) is payable under an enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland and is declared by the Treasury by order made by statutory instrument to be comparable to a grant falling within paragraph (a) of this subsection.

(4) Subsection (5) of section 35 of this Act shall have effect for the purposes of this section as if the references in that subsection to subsection (3) of that section included references to subsection (3) of this section.