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Version status: Repealed | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 10 May 1997 - onwards

30. Amendment of section 35 (relief for investment in films) of Finance Act, 1987.

As of 6 April 1997 this text has repealed

(1) Section 35 (inserted by section 31(1) of the Finance Act, 1996) of the Finance Act, 1987, is hereby amended -

(a) in subsection (1) -

(i) in the definition of "film" by the substitution of "means a film of a kind which is included within the categories of films eligible for certification as set out in guidelines referred to in subsection (2) which is produced" for "means a film which is produced", and

(ii) in the definition of "qualifying company", to insert after paragraph (a) the following new paragraph:

"(aa) does not contain in its name registered under either or both the Companies Acts, 1963 to 1990, or the Registration of Business Names Act, 1963, the words, ‘Ireland’, ‘Irish’, ‘Éireann’, ‘É ire’ or ‘National’, and",

(b) in subsection (2) -

(i) in paragraph (a)(i) by the insertion of the following proviso:

"Provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as obliging the Minister to give a certificate under this paragraph, and in any case where in relation to a film, the principal photography has commenced, the first animation drawings have commenced or the first model movement has commenced, as the case may be, before application is made by a qualifying company, the Minister shall not issue a certificate under this paragraph.", and