Part VII of the Finance Act, 1992, is hereby amended by the insertion after section 230 of the following section:
"230A.
(1) In this section -
'material interest' shall be construed in accordance with section 65(2) of the Finance Act, 1990;.
'offshore fund' has the meaning assigned to it in section 65(1) of the Finance Act, 1990:
Provided that a relevant UCITS, within the meaning of section 19(1) of the Finance Act, 1989, shall not be an offshore fund.
(2) As respects a material interest in an offshore fund, section 230 shall apply, with any necessary modification, where it would not otherwise apply to the following persons -
(a) to every person carrying on in the State a trade or business in the ordinary course of the operations of which such person acts as an intermediary in, or in connection with, the acquisition of such an interest in the same manner as it applies to every intermediary within the meaning of that section, and
(b) to a person resident or ordinarily resident in t