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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 28 March 2003 - onwards

16. Rental income: restriction of relief for certain interest.

(1) The Principal Act is amended -

(a) in section 97 -

(i) in subsection (2G), by substituting "in the purchase, other than from the spouse of the person chargeable" for "in the purchase", and

(ii) by inserting the following after subsection (2G):

"(2H) The reference to 'spouse' in subsection (2G) does not include a spouse to a marriage

(a) in which the spouses are separated under an order of a court of competent jurisdiction or by deed of separation, or

(b) that has been dissolved under either

(i) section 5 of the Family Law (Divorce) Act 1996, or

(ii) the law of a country or jurisdiction other than the State, being a divorce that is entitled to be recognised as valid in the State.", and

(b) in section 248A, by inserting the following after subsection (3):