INCOME TAX ACT 1967 (ACT 53)



SCHEDULE 9 - Transitional And Saving Provisions


General

1. Interpretation.

(1) In this Schedule-

"pre-basis period", in relation to a pre-year of assessment, means the period which would have been the basis period for that year if that year had been a year of assessment in relation to which this Act has effect by virtue of subsection 1(3);

"pre-basis year", in relation to a pre-year of assessment, means the calendar year immediately preceding that pre-year of assessment;

"previous tax" means any tax imposed by a repealed law;

"pre-year of assessment" means a calendar year preceding the year of assessment 1968;

"repealed laws" means the Sabah Ordinance, the Sarawak Ordinance and the West Malaysian Ordinance, and "repealed law" means any of those Ordinances;

"Sabah Ordinance" means the Income Tax Ordinance 1956, of Sabah;

"Sarawak Ordinance" means the Inland Revenue Ordinance 1960, of Sarawak;

"West Malaysian Ordinance" means the Income Tax Ordinance 1947, of West Malaysia.

(2) In the marginal note to any paragraph of this Schedule-


(3) This Part of this Schedule shall be subject in its operation to Parts II, III and IV thereof.

2. Power to make further transitional or saving provisions.

(1) The Minister at any time may by statutory order make such further transitional or saving provisions as he considers necessary or expedient (including provisions amending any of the paragraphs of this Schedule except this paragraph).

(2) Any order made under subparagraph (1) shall be laid before the Dewan Rakyat.


3. Repealed laws saved for certain purposes.

(1) Subject to subparagraph (2) and the other provisions of this Schedule, each of the repealed laws shall remain in force for all purposes in relation to the year of assessment 1967 under the law in question and to previous years of assessment under that law.

(2) Any function of a public officer under a repealed law may for the purposes of subparagraph (1) be exercised by any public officer referred to in section 134 whose office substantially corresponds to that of an officer by whom the function was exercisable under that law or by any public officer so referred to who is designated in that behalf by the Director General.

(3) Subsection 136(2) to (5) shall not apply to the exercise of the Director General's functions under subparagraph (2).

4. References to repealed law.

Unless the context otherwise requires, a reference in a written law to any provision of a repealed law shall be construed in relation to the year of assessment 1968 and subsequent years of assessment as a reference to the corresponding provision (if any) of this Act.

5. References to Malaysia before 1968.

Subject to any express provision of this Act, references in this Act to Malaysia shall be construed, in relation to any time before 1 January 1968, as references to the territories comprised in Malaysia on that date or any one or more of those territories.

6. Section 7.

References in section 7 to years of assessment preceding a particular year of assessment and to the basis years for those preceding years include references to pre-years of assessment and pre-basis years respectively.

7. Section 8.

Where a company or body of persons falls to be treated as resident in Sabah, Sarawak or West Malaysia under the appropriate repealed law for a year of assessment under that law coinciding with the calendar year 1966 or 1967, then, for the purposes of subsection 8(2)-


8. Section 10.

References in section 10 to years of assessment preceding a particular year of assessment and to the basis years for those preceding years including references to pre-years of assessment and pre-basis years respectively.

9. Section 13.

In section 13(2) and (3) "period" includes a period which elapsed or began before 1January 1968.

10. Section. 21.

(1) In subsection 21(2) and (3) "financial year" and "accounting period" include, in relation to the year of assessment 1968, a financial year or accounting period, as the case may be, beginning before 1st January 1967.

(2) Where under subsection 28(2) of the Sabah Ordinance, subsection 25(2) of the Sarawak Ordinance or subsection 31(2) of the West Malaysian Ordinance a direction has been given (or purports to have been given) with respect to the years of assessment 1967 and 1968 under the Ordinance in question, the period which the direction indicates (or purports to indicate) with respect to the year of assessment 1968 under that Ordinance shall be taken to be the basis period for the year of assessment 1968 under this Act unless the Director General having regard to the circumstances of any particular case directs that some other period shall be taken to be the basis period for that year of assessment under this Act.

(3) Where the accounts for the financial year of a company or the accounts of a business were made up for a period of twelve months to some day in the calendar year 1966 other than 31st December and accounts were not made up to the corresponding day in the calendar year 1967, the Director General may act under subsection 21(3) in relation to the years of assessment 1968 and 1969 under this Act and, where appropriate, may act under any of the provisions of the repealed laws mentioned in subparagraph (2) in relation to the year of assessment 1967 under any repealed law.

11. Section 23.

(1) In section 23(c) "any tax" includes previous tax deducted in paying, crediting or distributing any gross income-


(2) In paragraph 23(d) "tax", in relation to a dividend, includes previous tax-


(3) Where a dividend was paid or credited or distributed in specie in the year of assessment 1966 or 1967 under the Sarawak Ordinance by a company resident in Sarawak by virtue of that Ordinance for the year of assessment in which the dividend was paid, credited or distributed, section 23 shall operate in relation to the dividend so that, for the purposes of sections 24 to 28, it shall be deemed to have been paid, credited or distributed after deduction of tax at the rate in force for corporation profits tax in Sarawak for the year of assessment in question and to be of such a gross amount as after deduction of tax at that rate would be equal to-


12. Section 24.

(1) An amount treated under any repealed law as income from a source other than a source consisting of a business shall not be treated as gross income under this Act if it is a debt arising in the manner described in paragraph 24(1)(c).

(2) In subsection 24(4) "dividend" does not include any dividend which is treated under any repealed law as income from a source other than a source consisting of a business, and in subsection 24(5) "interest" does not include any interest which is so treated under any repealed law.

13. Part III.

Where, in the application of Chapters 3 and 4 of Part III to a person and a source of his, regard is to be had to any particular period commencing prior to the basis period for a year of assessment, regard may be had to that particular period notwithstanding that it commenced prior to the basis period for the year of assessment 1968.

14. Sections 30 and 34.

Where-


15. Section 33.

Where any particular part of the subject matter of any particular deduction which but for this paragraph would fall to be made under subsection 33(1) in computing the adjusted income of a person from a source for the basis period for a year of assessment has formed the whole or part of the subject matter of a deduction under any corresponding provision of a repealed law, that particular deduction, if the amount from which it was deducted is not gross income for the basis period for that year of assessment, shall be reduced in the application of subsection 33(1) to that year of assessment by so much thereof as relates to that particular part.

16. Section 34.

Where any particular part of the subject matter of any particular deduction which but for this paragraph would fall to be made under subsection 34 (1) in accordance with subsection (4), (6) or (7) of that section in computing the adjusted income of a person from a business for the basis period for a year of assessment has formed the whole or part of the subject matter of a deduction under any corresponding provision of a repealed law, that particular deduction, if the amount from which it was deducted is not gross income for the basis period for that year of assessment, shall be reduced in the application of subsection 34(1) and those subsections to that year of assessment by so much thereof as relates to that particular part.

17. Section 35.

Where the relevant period for the purposes of section 35 is a basis period for the year of assessment 1968, subsection (3) (b) of that section shall be so modified that the value of any particular item of the stock at the beginning of the relevant period (except where the business was commenced by the relevant person in the relevant period) shall be taken-


Provided that, where the value of an item to which subparagraph (b) applies was had regard to as mentioned in that sub-paragraph for the purposes of two or more repealed laws, regard shall be had for the purposes of that subparagraph to such one of those laws as the relevant person may elect by notice in writing given to the Director General within three months after the beginning of the year of assessment 1968 (or within such further period as the Director General may allow) or, if the relevant person fails so to elect, as the Director General may direct.

18. Section 43.

(1) Where a person has incurred, in relation to a source of his, a loss of a kind deductible under any repealed law, there shall be ascertained the amount thereof, if any, unallowed after the application of that law to all years of assessment under that law for which that law was in force:

Provided that, if in the application of this sub-paragraph to a person and a loss in relation to a source an amount is so ascertained under the Sabah Ordinance and if under that Ordinance that loss is one incurred anywhere, this subparagraph shall not apply to any part of that loss in relation to any repealed law other than that Ordinance.

(2) Where an amount has been ascertained under subparagraph (1) in its application to a person and a source, then, in the application of section 43 to that person, that amount (in subparagraph (3) referred to as the specified amount) shall be treated as the amount ascertained under subsection 44(4) for the pre-year of assessment 1967, which shall be treated as the particular year of assessment preceding the relevant year for the purposes of subsection 43 (2).

(3) Where the proviso to sub-paragraph (1) is applicable to a person and that person is not ordinarily resident for the basis year for the relevant year to which regard is had in the application of section 43, section 43 (5) shall apply in order to ascertain how much of the specified amount is to be taken to be the amount of the Malaysian loss for the purposes of section 43 (5) (a) and the proportion thereof to be substituted for the purposes of section 43 (5) (b).

19. Section 44.

(1) Where a loss has been deducted in calculating the assessable income or the assessable profits (as the case may be) for the year of assessment 1967 under a repealed law no part of that loss shall be taken into account for the purposes of section 44.

(2) Where approval has been given for the purposes of any of the repealed laws to an institution of a public character, the approval, if it was still effective on 31st December, 1967, shall be deemed to have been given (subject to any conditions effective on that date) under section 44.

20. Section 54.

(1) Where a person has incurred, in relation to a source of his consisting of a business of a kind to which subsection 54(2) applies, a loss of a kind deductible under any repealed law, there shall be ascertained the amount thereof, if any, unallowed after the application of that law to all years of assessment under that law for which that law was in force.

(2) Subparagraph (1) shall apply to a depreciation allowance to which regard is had under a repealed law as it applies to a loss.

(3) Where an amount has been ascertained under subparagraph (1) or (2) or both in respect of a person and a source, then, in the application of paragraph 54(4)(a) to that person, that amount (or, where an amount has been ascertained under either or both of those subparagraphs in relation to more than one repealed law, the aggregate of the amounts so ascertained) shall be treated as the amount ascertained under paragraph 54(4)(b) for the pre-year of assessment 1967, which shall be treated as a year of assessment preceding the relevant year for the purposes of paragraph 54(4)(a).

(4) Paragraph 18 shall not apply to a loss to which this paragraph applies.

21. Section 60.

In the application of subparagraph 60 (5)(a)(v) and (6)(a)(v) to the general business of an insurer for the basis period for the year of assessment 1968, section 60 (9) shall not apply and for the amount of his reserve fund for unexpired risks regard shall be had to the amount taken by him to be the reserve for unexpired risks at the end of the basis period for the year of assessment 1967 under a repealed law or, where two or more repealed laws apply, the aggregate of the amounts taken by him to be the reserves for unexpired risks at the end of the basis period for the year of assessment 1967 under each of those laws.

22. Section 68.

Where an appointment has been made under any repealed law of any person to be the agent of any other person for any of the purposes of that law, the appointment, if it was still effective on 31st December 1967, shall be deemed to have been made under section 68 for any purposes of this Act similar to those first-mentioned purposes.

23. Section 74.

In subsection 74(5) and (6) "tax" includes previous tax.

24. Section 75.

In subsection 75(2) the references to tax, this Act and section 107 include references to previous tax, any repealed law and any provision of a repealed law corresponding to section 107; and subsection 75(3) shall be construed accordingly.

25. Part VII.

Part VII (except sections 108, 109 and 110) shall apply, with any necessary modifications, for the recovery of and otherwise in relation to any previous tax which is the subject of an assessment made under a repealed law on or after 1st January, 1968, and any sum due in connection with any such previous tax.

26. Section 104.

In section 104 the references to tax, sums and debts include references to previous tax and to sums and debts of a corresponding kind under the repealed laws.

27. Section 107.

Where a direction has been given for the year of assessment 1968 under the Deduction of Income Tax (Employments) Rules 1948 of West Malaysia [G.N. 3305/48], the direction shall be deemed to have been given under the Income Tax (Deduction from Emoluments: West Malaysia) Rules, 1967 [P. U. 636/67I].

28. Section 108.

(1) Where section 108 (4) applies to a company for the year of assessment 1968-



(2) In the application of section 108 (8) to any case to which subparagraph (1) applies, the references in the said section 108 (8) to a year of assessment, any assessment and any repayment of tax shall be deemed to include references to a year of assessment, any assessment and any repayment of tax under any repealed law.

(3) For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that-


(4) Where-


shall not be deemed to be a repayment of tax under subsection 108(8).

(5) For the purposes of subparagraph (4), a non-resident company refers to a company which is not resident in the basis year for the year of assessment 1967 but does not include a company which is entitled to declare itself a resident of Malaysia under paragraph 3 of Article VII of the Double Taxation Relief (Singapore) Order 1968.

29. Section 108.

(1) Where subparagraph 28(1)(b)(ii) applies to a company-




(2) Where this paragraph has applied to a dividend which has been credited, it shall not apply to that dividend when paid.

30. Section 108.

In paragraph 29-

"federal tax" means any one or more of the following, that is to say, the income tax imposed by the Sabah Ordinance, the corporation profits tax imposed by the Sarawak Ordinance and the income tax imposed by the West Malaysian Ordinance, but does not include tin profits tax or development tax imposed under any repealed law;

"Sarawak tax" means the corporation profits tax imposed by the Sarawak Ordinance, but does not include development tax imposed by that Ordinance;

"year of assessment", in relation to Sarawak tax, means a year of assessment for the purposes of the Sarawak Ordinance, and in relation to federal tax means a year of assessment for the purposes of any one or more of the repealed laws.

31. Section 110.

(1) Subject to subparagraph (2), in the application of section 110, other than subsections (8), (9), (10) and (12) thereof, any reference to tax shall include a reference-


(2) Sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply to any tax imposed under the West Malaysian Ordinance or the Sabah Ordinance and deducted from any dividend or interest if by virtue of paragraph 12 (2) that dividend or interest is not to be included as gross income for the basis period for a year of assessment.

(3) Where an amount of previous tax is deemed by virtue of paragraph 11 (3) to have been deducted from a dividend and the dividend is included in the gross income of a person from a source for the basis period for a year of assessment, that amount shall be deemed for the purposes of section 110 to be tax deducted under section 108.

32. Section 115.

In section 115 (1) the references to tax, sums and debts include references to previous tax and sums and debts of a corresponding kind under the repealed laws.

33. Section 127.

Any exemption from any previous tax or from any provision of a repealed law shall, if it was made under a repealed law and was effective on 31st December, 1967, be deemed to have been made by an order under section 127 in relation to tax imposed by this Act or in relation to the corresponding provision of this Act, as the case may be:

Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in relation to-


34. Section 131.

In subsection 131 (3) the references to tax, years of assessment and assessments include references to previous tax and to years of assessment and assessments under any repealed law.

35. Section 134.


(1) With effect from 1January 1968-


Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as altering any officer's terms of service.

(2) Subsection 136(2) to (5) shall not apply to the exercise of the Director General's functions under subsubparagraph (1)(c).

(3) To such extent as may be necessary for the proper application of this Act in relation to the year of assessment 1968, subparagraph (1) shall have effect as if any references therein to 1January 1968, and 31December 1967, were references to 28 September 1967, and 27 September 1967, respectively.

36. Section 138.

Where for the purposes of any repealed law a person has made a declaration of a kind corresponding to a declaration required by subsection 138(1), the declaration so made shall be treated as a declaration that he will regard and deal with classified material as confidential and as a declaration made and subscribed by him for the purposes of section 138.

37. Section 142.

Where by virtue of paragraph 25 civil proceedings are taken under section 106 for the recovery of previous tax or any other sum due under a repealed law, section 142 shall apply in relation to those proceedings and that tax or sum as it applies in relation to proceedings for the recovery of tax due under this Act.

38. Section 149.

Section 149 shall not apply to an order deemed to have been made under paragraph 33.

39. Section 150.

Where approval has been given for the purposes of any of the repealed laws to a retirement scheme or to a pension or provident fund or society, the approval, if it was still effective on 31December 1967, shall be deemed to have been given (subject to any conditions effective on that date) under section 150.

40. Section 154.

(1) In paragraph 154(1)(e) the references to tax include a reference to previous tax and the reference to sums due includes a reference to sums of a corresponding kind due under the repealed laws.

(2) Rules made under section 154 may include such transitional and saving provisions as may be expedient in the circumstances.

41. Schedule 2:6.

For the purposes of Schedule 2, where the operator owned an asset at the beginning of the basis period for the year of assessment 1968 and has incurred capital expenditure as defined in the Income Tax (Mining Operations) Rules 1949, of West Malaysia [F.L.N. 534/49] on or for the asset in connection with the working of the mine-


42. Schedule 2:15.

Paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 shall not apply where the operator (within the meaning of that Schedule) permanently ceases to work a mine in the basis period for the year of assessment 1968; and, where he permanently ceases to work a mine in the basis period for any of the years of assessment 1969 to 1972 inclusive-


43. Schedule 2:22.

Where any capital expenditure is included by virtue of paragraph 41 in the total qualifying mining expenditure mentioned in the definition of "residual expenditure" in paragraph 22 of Schedule 2, that total, apart from any other deductions made for the purposes of that definition, shall be reduced by the amount-


44. Schedule 3:5.

For the purposes of paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 in its relation to a building, in any case where the expenditure on the construction of the building in question was incurred prior to 1 January 1968, references in that paragraph to "year of assessment" and "basis period" shall be deemed to include references to any pre-year of assessment and to any pre-basis period, respectively.

45. Schedule 3:10, 11 and 22.

(1) Where in a case to which paragraph 10 or 11 of Schedule 3 or subparagraph (2) of this paragraph applies the basis period for the year of assessment 1967 under a repealed law overlaps the basis period for the year of assessment 1968, then, for the purposes of paragraph 10, 11 or 22, as the case may be, of Schedule 3, expenditure incurred in the period common to those two basis periods shall not be treated as incurred in the basis period for the year of assessment 1968.

(2) Where a person has for the purposes of a business of his incurred prior to the basis period for the year of assessment 1968 qualifying plantation expenditure on the construction of a building, then, if but for the repeal of the repealed laws he would have been entitled to an allowance in respect of that expenditure for a particular year of assessment under any of the repealed laws commencing after 31December 1967, there shall be made to him under paragraph 22 of Schedule 3 in relation to the source consisting of that business for the year of assessment under this Act which coincides with that particular year an allowance equal to the amount of any allowance or allowances to which he would have been so entitled for that particular year.

46. Schedule 3:23.

(1) For the purposes of paragraph 23 of Schedule 3, where in the basis period for the year of assessment 1967 under any repealed law a person has for the purposes of a business of his incurred qualifying plantation expenditure other than expenditure on the construction of a building, there shall be made to him in relation to the source consisting of that business for the year of assessment 1968 an allowance equal to one-half of that expenditure:

Provided that this sub-paragraph shall not apply in relation to any expenditure incurred in Sarawak.

(2) Where a person has for the purposes of a business of his incurred (prior to 31December 1964) capital expenditure within the meaning of section 14 of the Sabah Ordinance upon a plantation or (prior to 31December 1961) capital expenditure within the meaning of section 18A of the West Malaysian Ordinance, then, if but for the repeal of those Ordinances he would have been entitled to an allowance in respect of that expenditure for a particular year of assessment (under the appropriate one of those Ordinances) commencing after 31December 1967, there shall be made to him under paragraph 23 of Schedule 3 in relation to the source consisting of that business for the year of assessment which coincides with that particular year an allowance equal to the amount of the allowance to which he would have been so entitled for that particular year.

(3) Where in a case to which subparagraph (1) or (2) applies the basis period for the year of assessment 1967 under a repealed law overlaps the basis period for the year of assessment 1968, then, for the purposes of paragraph 23 of Schedule 3, expenditure incurred in the period common to those two basis periods shall not be treated as incurred in the basis period for the year of assessment 1968.

47. Schedule 3:26.

For the purposes of paragraph 26 of Schedule 3, if any sum as therein mentioned falls into charge to tax imposed under the West Malaysian Ordinance or the Sabah Ordinance for the year of assessment 1967, that paragraph shall not apply to that sum.

48. Schedule 3:27.

(1) Paragraph 27 of Schedule 3 shall not apply in relation to a person, an asset or a business of his where, under section 18A (3) of the West Malaysian Ordinance or subsection 14(3) of the Sabah Ordinance, any sum of money or consideration is deemed to be that person's income for the year of assessment 1967 under the Ordinance in question, and the whole or any part of that sum or consideration relates directly or indirectly to that asset.

(2) In relation to a person, an asset and a business of his, the reference in paragraph 27 of Schedule 3 to qualifying plantation expenditure shall when appropriate include capital expenditure (as defined in section 18A of the West Malaysian Ordinance and in section 14 of the Sabah Ordinance) incurred on that asset; and, when there is such an inclusion, then, if the preliminary conditions of that paragraph are satisfied, the references in subsubparagraph (b) of that paragraph to "agriculture allowance", "year of assessment" and "allowances" shall include respectively-


and the reference in the proviso to that paragraph to "year of assessment" shall include any year of assessment under either of those Ordinances.

49. Schedule 3:35.

Paragraph 35 of Schedule 3 shall not apply to an asset disposed of by a person if a balancing charge in relation to that asset has been made on him under any repealed law.

50. Schedule 3:36.

In the application of paragraph 36 of Schedule 3 to a person and an asset, if the asset is disposed of by him in the basis period for the year of assessment 1968, the reference in that paragraph to an initial or annual allowance shall be taken to be a reference to an initial or annual allowance of a kind allowed under any repealed law.

51. Schedule 3:37.

In the application of paragraph 37 of Schedule 3 to a person and an asset, there shall be included in the total therein mentioned all allowances of a kind similar to allowances under that Schedule made to him under any repealed law in relation to that asset.

52. Schedule 3:39 and 40.

Paragraphs 39 and 40 of Schedule 3 shall not apply to an asset disposed of if a balancing allowance or charge in relation to that asset has been made on a person (being the disposer in relation to that asset for the purposes of paragraphs 38 and 39 of that Schedule) under any repealed law.

53. Schedule 3:40 and 41.

Rules made under paragraph 40 or 41 of Schedule 3 may be made applicable for transitional purposes to any repealed law and to any matter to which that law has been applicable.

54. Schedule 3:42.

Paragraph 42 of Schedule 3 shall not apply to a building constructed prior to the basis period for the year of assessment 1968.

55. Schedule 3:57.

Where in relation to an asset and a business of a person the period of any disuse for the purposes of paragraph 57 of Schedule 3 is a period which commenced prior to the basis period for the year of assessment 1968, all such assessments shall be made under any repealed law as may be necessary to counteract the benefit of any allowance made to that person for any year of assessment under that law in relation to that asset.

56. Schedule 3:68.

(1) Subject to this paragraph, in the application of paragraph 68 of Schedule 3 in relation to an asset and a person as therein mentioned, any capital expenditure incurred by him on the asset shall be treated as qualifying expenditure incurred by him for the purposes of that paragraph and, where the total qualifying expenditure has been ascertained under that paragraph as construed with this subparagraph, that total shall be reduced in the manner provided by that paragraph (if applicable) and by any allowance made to him in relation to that asset.

(2) Subject to subparagraph (3), in subparagraph (1)-

"allowance" means any allowance made under any provision of any repealed law corresponding to any provision of Schedule 3 or any amount written off under an repealed law for any year of assessment for which no initial or annual allowance falls to be made in relation to an industrial building or any amount which was deducted from the capital expenditure under the provisions of any repealed law in connection with the computation of the value of an asset acquired before the basis period for the first year of assessment under any repealed law;

"capital expenditure" means capital expenditure as defined in any repealed law for the purposes of any provisions thereof corresponding to any provisions of Schedule 3.

(3) In the application of subparagraphs (1) and (2) in relation to a person and an asset if, but for this subparagraph, regard would be had to the same amount in respect of any capital expenditure or allowance by reference to more than one repealed law, regard shall be had to that amount only by reference to the appropriate repealed law, that is to say-


57. Schedule 3:69.

Where for the purpose of this Schedule and Schedule 3 it is necessary to have regard to an allowance made under any repealed law, paragraph 69 of Schedule 3 shall apply (with such modifications as may be necessary) by reference to the repealed law relating to any such allowance.

58. Schedule 3:75.

(1) In relation to a person, an asset and a business of his, if effect cannot be given or cannot be given in full to any allowance or allowances of the kind defined in subparagraph 56 (2) to which paragraph 57 applies, that allowance or those allowances (or, as the case may be, the amount thereof to which effect has not been so given) shall be deemed to be an allowance to be made to him for the purposes of paragraph 75 of Schedule 3, the reference therein to the first subsequent year of assessment being treated as a reference to the year of assessment 1968 if there is adjusted income from that business for the basis period for that year or in the absence of any such adjusted income, as a reference to the first year of assessment subsequent to the year of assessment 1968 for the basis period for which there is any such adjusted income:

Provided that, where this paragraph has been applied to an allowance or allowances or to any part thereof in relation to a business, this paragraph shall not apply to that allowance, those allowances or that part in relation to any other business of his.

(2) Subparagraph 56(3) shall apply to allowances affected by this paragraph as it applies to allowances within the meaning of subparagraph 56 (1).

59. Schedule 3: general.

Unless the context otherwise requires and subject to this Schedule, any reference in Schedule 3 to expenditure includes a reference to expenditure incurred before the basis period for the year of assessment 1968 and any reference in that Schedule to anything done or to any event includes a reference to a thing or event of the kind in question done or occurring before that basis period.

60. Schedule 4.

(1) Subject to this paragraph, where in any case a person makes a claim under Schedule 4 for a deduction for a year of assessment in respect of qualifying prospecting expenditure, then, for the purposes of applying that Schedule to that case regard may be had to any such expenditure incurred (and any event which took place) not more than ten years before the end of the basis year for that year of assessment notwithstanding that the whole or part of that period of ten years elapsed before the commencement of this Act; and, whenever necessary, the reference in the proviso to paragraph 11 of that Schedule to a transaction to which section 140 applies shall be construed to include a transaction to which that section would have applied if it had been in force at the date of that transaction.

(2) Subparagraph (1) shall not apply to any expenditure incurred in Sabah or Sarawak, prior to the basis year for the year of assessment 1968 or to any expenditure with respect to which any deduction has been made under section 14A of the West Malaysian Ordinance.

61. Schedule 5.

Where a notice of appeal against an assessment is given under the Sabah Ordinance or the West Malaysian Ordinance or a notice of objection to an assessment is given under the Sarawak Ordinance, then-


and, where a notice relating to an assessment is forwarded or given to the Clerk to the Special Commissioners in pursuance of this paragraph, an appeal against the assessment shall be deemed to have been forwarded to the Special Commissioners and shall be disposed of as nearly as may be in accordance with Schedule 5.

62. Application of this Act to assessment made under repealed law.

(1) Where an assessment under a repealed law is made on a person on or after 1 January 1972, the provisions of section 97 and Chapter 2 of Part VI of this Act shall apply to such assessment as if the assessment was made under section 90 or 91, as the case may be, of this Act.

(2) Where subparagraph (1) applies, the provisions to the contrary relating to appeal or objection against an assessment contained in a repealed law shall not apply.

62. Income related back.

Where-


that income, if not otherwise subject to previous tax, shall be treated as income for the year of assessment under the appropriate repealed law which corresponds to that pre-year of assessment or, if there is no such corresponding year of assessment, as income for the year of assessment under that law which includes the 1 July of that pre-year of assessment.

PART II
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR SABAH


63. Application and power of remission.

(1) This Part shall apply only to Sabah.

(2) Any tax paid or payable by virtue of this Part may be remitted by the Director General on grounds of undue hardship; and section 129 shall apply in relation to any tax so remitted as it applies in relation to tax remitted under that section.

64. Interpretation.

In this Part-

"appropriate date", in relation to a person, means the date on which the appropriate event mentioned in paragraphs 71 to 74 which gives him entitlement to payment of the Sabah credit of a company apportioned to him occurs;

"old tax" means income tax (excluding any tax deemed to be income tax under the Sabah Ordinance) imposed under the Sabah Ordinance;

"relevant date", in relation to a company, means the date on which the appropriate event mentioned in paragraph 69 which gives it entitlement to payment of the Sabah credit occurs;

"Sabah credit" means the amount ascertained under paragraph 68;

"statutory income", in relation to a person, a source and a year of assessment under the Sabah Ordinance, means the amount of his income from that source for the basis period under that Ordinance for that year of assessment increased by any balancing charge falling to be made in relation to that source for that year of assessment and reduced by any allowance falling to be made for that year under sections 14 to 21 of that Ordinance in relation to that source;

"year of assessment 1966/67" means the year of assessment commencing on 1 July 1966, under the Sabah Ordinance;

"year of assessment 1967" means the year of assessment 1967 under the Sabah Ordinance;

"year of assessment 1967/68" means the year of assessment commencing on 1 July 1967, under the Sabah Ordinance.

65. No chargeable income in certain cases.

In the application of subparagraph 3(1) of this Schedule, a person shall be deemed not to have any chargeable income under the Sabah Ordinance for the year of assessment 1967/68.

66. Provisions as to statutory income for certain years of assessment.

(1) In the case of a person other than a company, the aggregate of-


shall be deemed to be statutory income of his for the year of assessment 1966/67 from a source of his.

(2) The amount of the statutory income of a person for the year of assessment 1966/67 from a source of his as ascertained under subparagraph (1) shall be charged to old tax for that year at the effective rate of tax; and Parts XI to XIII of the Sabah Ordinance shall apply to that amount as if that amount had been additional chargeable income of that person for that year.

(3) Where subparagraph (1) applies to a person and in his case there is no effective rate of tax, then, if none of the sources of income of that person was possessed by him for the whole of the basis period, in relation to each source, under the Sabah Ordinance for the year of assessment 1966/67, and the amount of his statutory income ascertained under subparagraph (1) exceeds the aggregate of the statutory income from each source of that person for that year-


(4) Where subparagraph (1) applies to a person and in his case the amount of any loss or the aggregate of the amount of any losses falling to be deducted under section 32 of the Sabah Ordinance in ascertaining the assessable income of that person for the year of assessment 1966/67 exceeds the aggregate of the statutory income from each source of that person for that year, the excess shall be deducted from the amount of his statutory income ascertained under subparagraph (1); and in the application of paragraph 18 in relation to that person, regard shall be had only to the balance (if any) of any such loss or losses after the application of this subparagraph.

(5) Where by the operation of paragraph 62 any income of a person from a source falls to be treated as income for the year of assessment 1967/68, that income-




(6) For the purposes of this paragraph, except where the context in subparagraphs (3) and (4) otherwise requires-

"basis period", in a case where a person other than a company possesses a source for a part or parts, but not for the whole, of a basis period, is to be construed as meaning that part or those parts of the basis period in question;

"effective rate of tax", in relation to a person, means the rate determined by dividing the amount of old tax chargeable on the chargeable income (excluding any additional chargeable income created under subparagraph (2)) of that person for the year of assessment 1966/67 by the amount of the assessable income of that person for that year;

"interval period", in relation to the year of assessment 1967/68 or the year of assessment commencing on 1 July 1968, under the Sabah Ordinance means that part of the basis period for that year which elapsed before 1 January 1967.

67. Ascertainment of old tax payable by company.

For the purposes of this Part, in the case of a company the accounts of a business of whom were made up for a period of twelve months ending on a day in the calendar year 1966 other than 31 December (being a company with respect to which the Commissioner has not made a direction under section 28 (2) of the Sabah Ordinance to treat that period as the basis period under that Ordinance for the year of assessment 1967) there shall be ascertained-


68. Ascertainment of Sabah credit.


(1) There shall be ascertained with respect to the old tax paid by a company as ascertained under paragraph 67 the Sabah credit in accordance with the following subparagraphs.

(2) In the case of a company to which paragraph 67 applies, the Sabah credit shall be so much of the old tax paid for the year of assessment 1967 as bears the same proportion to that old tax as the total of the statutory income from each source for the overlapping period bears to the assessable income of the company for that year.

(3) In this paragraph-

"overlapping period" means that part of the basis period under the Sabah Ordinance in relation to a source for a year of assessment under that Ordinance which overlaps the basis period in relation to that source for a year of assessment under this Act;

"total of the statutory income from each source for the overlapping period", in relation to a company, means so much of the aggregate of the statutory income from each source of that company for a year of assessment under the Sabah Ordinance, reduced by any amount falling to be deducted under section 32 of that Ordinance in ascertaining the assessable income of the company under that Ordinance for that year, as bears the same proportion to that aggregate as so reduced as the aggregate of the number of days of the overlapping period in relation to each source bears to the aggregate of the number of days in the basis period in relation to each source under that Ordinance for that year.

69. Events in which Sabah credit is payable to company.

(1) Subject to paragraph 76, the Sabah credit of a company shall be payable upon the date of the occurrence of such one of the following events as first occurs in relation to the company, that is to say, on the dissolution of the company after 31 December 1967, or on its satisfying the Director General that it has not gone into dissolution before 1 January 1988, or, in the case of a company which ceases to have income (other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in the basis year for a year of assessment, on its satisfying the Director General that it was not resident for that basis year or for a year subsequent thereto and that it is not likely to have any income (other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in any of the two years following that basis year or, as the case may be, that subsequent year:

Provided that this paragraph shall not apply on the dissolution of a particular company after 31 December 1967, if at or about the time of the dissolution any of the assets of that particular company available for distribution to its members are transferred-


(2) Where the proviso to subparagraph (1) applies on the transfer of a company's assets, the Sabah credit to which, but for that proviso, the company would have been entitled shall be paid in accordance with the following subparagraphs.

(3) Subject to subparagraph (4)-


(4) Where a member or person to whom a Sabah credit (or any portion thereof) is to be paid under subparagraph (3) is a company, the amount to be paid shall be treated as a Sabah credit of the company and subparagraph (1) shall apply with respect to the payment of that credit.

(5) Where subparagraph (3) does not apply, the Sabah credit of a company shall be treated as a Sabah credit of the transferee and subparagraph (1) shall apply with respect to the payment of that credit.

(6) In a case where there are two or more transfers (other than transfers to members of the company or to a person or persons having control of the company within the meaning of section 139) to which the proviso to subparagraph (1) applies, subparagraph (5) shall be applied by making such apportionment of the Sabah credit among the transferees as the Director General considers to be reasonably necessary in order to give proper effect to subparagraph (5) in the circumstances.

70. Credit payable to company before dissolution in certain cases.

Where the Director General is satisfied that the dissolution of a company is imminent and that the company will be entitled on its dissolution to the Sabah credit, he may make the amount of the Sabah credit available to the liquidator of the company; and, if the company is not dissolved within three months (or such longer period as the Director General may consider reasonable in the circumstances) after the making available of that amount to the liquidator, it shall be the duty of the liquidator to return that amount to the Director General upon being called upon to do so.

71. Events in which company's credit apportioned to individual is payable.

Subject to paragraph 76, so much of the Sabah credit of a company as is apportioned under paragraph 69 (3) to an individual who was a member of that company at the time of its dissolution shall be payable on the date of the occurrence of such one of the following events as first occurs in relation to him:


Provided that subparagraph (d) shall not apply to the individual if at the time of his departure from Malaysia he has any source (being a source the income from which is wholly or partly derived from Malaysia) other than-


72. Matters as to which Director General is to be satisfied for the purposes of paragraph 71.

For the purposes of subsubparagraph 71(d), an individual is required to satisfy the Director General that the individual-


73. Trustees and executors.

Subject to paragraph 76, so much of the Sabah credit of a company as is apportioned under subparagraph 69(3) to the trustees of a trust or the executors of a deceased person (the trustees or the executors, as the case may be, being members of the company at the time of its dissolution) shall be payable-



74. Provisions applicable when paragraphs 71 to 73 do not apply.

Subject to paragraph 76, so much of the Sabah credit of a company as is apportioned under subparagraph 69(3) to a person (being a member of the company at the time of its dissolution) to whom none of paragraphs 71 to 73 applies shall be payable-


75. Married women.

Where the Sabah credit of a company is apportioned under subparagraph 69(3) to a woman who was a member of the company at the time of its dissolution, so much of that credit as is so apportioned to her shall be paid if she is married, whether at that time or subsequently thereto, and before the date on which she would otherwise have been entitled to payment thereof to her husband on the appropriate date in relation to him as if that credit had been apportioned to him:

Provided that-


76. Power to set off credit against tax payable.

Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraphs of this Part, where in any calendar year any company becomes entitled to payment of a Sabah credit or a person becomes entitled to payment of the Sabah credit of a company apportioned to him, the Director General may withhold payment thereof for the purposes of setting off the amount thereof against any tax or previous tax payable by that company or, as the case may be, by that person.

77. Construction of references to certain years of assessment.

Where in any case regard is to be had by virtue of this Schedule to the year of assessment 1966 or 1967 under the Sabah Ordinance or to a year of assessment under the Sabah Ordinance coinciding with the calendar year 1966 or 1967, and in that case the appropriate year of assessment under that Ordinance is the year of assessment commencing on 1st July, 1965, or the year of assessment 1966/67, regard shall be had to the year of assessment commencing on 1 July 1965, or the year of assessment 1966/67, as the case may be, and the basis period therefor in relation to a source, and not to the year of assessment 1966 or 1967 or the year of assessment coinciding with the calendar year 1966 or 1967, or the basis period therefor.

PART III
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR SARAWAK


78. Application and power of remission.

(1) This Part shall apply only to Sarawak.

(2) Any tax paid or payable by virtue of this Part may be remitted by the Director General on grounds of undue hardship; and section 129 shall apply in relation to any tax so remitted as it applies in relation to tax remitted under that section.

79. Interpretation.

In this Part-

"old tax" means the profits tax (excluding any tax deemed to be profits tax under the Sarawak Ordinance) imposed under the Sarawak Ordinance;

"relevant date", in relation to any person means the date on which the appropriate event mentioned in paragraphs 83 to 88 which gives him entitlement to payment of the Sarawak credit occurs;

"Sarawak credit" means the amount ascertained under paragraph 82;

"year of assessment 1967" means the year of assessment 1967 under the Sarawak Ordinance.

80. No chargeable income in certain cases.

Subject to paragraph 93, in the application of subparagraph 3(1) of this Schedule a person chargeable to salaries tax under the Sarawak Ordinance shall be deemed not to have any chargeable income under that Ordinance for the year of assessment 1967.

81. Ascertainment of old tax payable by a person.

In the case of a person the accounts of a business of whom were made up to a date in the calendar year 1966 other than 31st December that business being a business with respect to which the Commissioner has not made a direction under subsection 25 (1) of the Sarawak Ordinance to treat that period as the period by reference to which the assessable profits or loss from the business was to be computed there shall be ascertained for the purposes of this Part-


82. Ascertainment of Sarawak credit.

(1) There shall be ascertained with respect to the total amount of the old tax paid by a person as ascertained under paragraph 81 the Sarawak credit in accordance with the following subparagraphs.

(2) In any case to which paragraph 81 applies, the Sarawak credit of a person shall be so much of the profits tax paid by him for the year of assessment 1967 as bears the same proportion to that profits tax as the assessable profits for the overlapping period bears to the aggregate of the assessable profits from each source of his for that year reduced by the amount of any loss incurred by him which would be set off against those assessable profits under section 28 of the Sarawak Ordinance for the year of assessment 1967.

(3) In the application of subparagraph (2) to the trustees of a trust, the reference therein to profits tax paid for the year of assessment 1967 shall be taken to be a reference to so much of that profits tax paid by the trustees for that year as bears the same proportion to that profits tax as the aggregate of the assessable profits from each source of the trustees for that year, reduced first by the amount of any loss incurred by the trustees which would be set-off against those assessable profits under section 28 of the Sarawak Ordinance for the year of assessment 1967 and thereafter by so much thereof as falls to be treated as assessable profits for that year of a beneficiary or beneficiaries of the trust, bears to that aggregate reduced by the amount of any such loss for that year.

(4) In this paragraph-

"assessable profits for the overlapping period", in relation to a person, means so much of the aggregate of the assessable profits from each source of that person under the Sarawak Ordinance for a year of assessment under that Ordinance, reduced by the amount of any loss incurred by him which would be set-off against those assessable profits under section 28 of the Sarawak Ordinance, as bears the same proportion to that aggregate as so reduced as the aggregate number of days of the overlapping period in relation to each source bears to the aggregate of the number of days of the basis period in relation to each source under that Ordinance for that year of assessment;

"overlapping period" means that part of the basis period under the Sarawak Ordinance in relation to a source for the year of assessment 1967 which overlaps the basis period in relation to that source for a year of assessment under this Act.

83. Events in which Sarawak credit is payable to an individual.

Subject to paragraph 92, the Sarawak credit of an individual shall be payable upon the date of the occurrence of such one of the following events as first occurs in relation to him:


Provided that subsubparagraph (d) shall not apply to the individual if at the time of his departure from Malaysia he has any source (being a source the income from which is wholly or partly derived from Malaysia) other than-


84. Matters as to which the Director General is to be satisfied for the purposes of paragraph 83.

For the purposes of subsubparagraph 83 (d), an individual is required to satisfy the Director General that the individual-


85. Events in which Sarawak credit is payable to a company.

(1) Subject to paragraph 92, the Sarawak credit of a company shall be payable upon the date of the occurrence of such one of the following events as first occurs in relation to the company, that is to say, on the dissolution of the company after 31 December 1967, or on its satisfying the Director General that it has not gone into dissolution before 1 January 1988, or, in the case of a company which ceases to have income (other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in the basis year for a year of assessment, on its satisfying the Director General that it was not resident for that basis year or for a year subsequent thereto and that it is not likely to have any income (other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in any of the two years following that basis year or, as the case may be, that subsequent year:

Provided that this paragraph shall not apply on the dissolution of a particular company after 31 December 1967, if at or about the time of the dissolution any of the assets of that particular company available for distribution to its members are transferred-


(2) Where the proviso to subparagraph (1) applies on the transfer of a company's assets, the Sarawak credit to which, but for that proviso, the company would have been entitled shall be paid in accordance with the following subparagraphs.

(3) Subject to subparagraph (4)-


(4) Where a member or person to whom a Sarawak credit (or any portion thereof) is to be paid under subparagraph (3) is a company, the amount to be paid shall be treated as a Sarawak credit of the company and subparagraph (1) shall apply with respect to the payment of that credit.

(5) Where subparagraph (3) does not apply, the Sarawak credit of a company shall be treated as a Sarawak credit of the transferee and subparagraph (1) shall apply with respect to the payment of that credit.

(6) In a case where there are two or more transfers (other than transfers to members of the company or to a person or persons having control of the company within the meaning of section 139) to which the proviso to subparagraph (1) applies, subparagraph (5) shall be applied by making such apportionment of the Sarawak credit among the transferees as the Director General considers to be reasonably necessary in order to give proper effect to subparagraph (5) in the circumstances.

86. Sarawak credit payable to company before dissolution in certain cases.

Where the Director General is satisfied that the dissolution of a company is imminent and that the company will be entitled on its dissolution to the Sarawak credit, he may make the amount of the Sarawak credit available to the liquidator of the company; and, if the company is not dissolved within three months (or such longer period as the Director General may consider reasonable in the circumstances) after the making available of that amount to the liquidator, it shall be the duty of the liquidator to return that amount to the Director General upon being called upon to do so.

87. Trustees and executors.

Subject to paragraph 92, the Sarawak credit of the trustees of a trust or the executors of the estate of a deceased person shall be payable-


88. Provisions applicable where paragraphs 83 to 87 do not apply.

Subject to paragraph 92, the Sarawak credit of a person to whom none of paragraphs 83 to 87 applies shall be payable-


89. Married persons: general.

Where section 47A of the Sarawak Ordinance applies to a married woman and her husband for the year of assessment 1967, then, in the application of the foregoing paragraphs of this Part to the husband-


90. Married persons: disposal of wife's credit.

Where-


91. Married persons: modification of paragraphs 89 and 90.

In any case where paragraph 89 or 90 applies to the husband and wife of a marriage-


92. Power to set off Sarawak credit against tax payable.

Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraphs of this Part, where any person becomes entitled to a Sarawak credit in any calendar year, the Director General may withhold payment thereof for the purposes of setting off the amount thereof against any tax or previous tax payable by that person.

93. Certain income to be disregarded.

(1) Where in the calendar year 1967 a person ceased to possess a source the income from which is chargeable to profits tax under the Sarawak Ordinance, then, if by reference to income from that source up to the date of cessation an assessment has been made under the Sarawak Ordinance for the year of assessment 1968 under that Ordinance, the income from that source included in that assessment shall be disregarded for the purposes of this Act unless that assessment falls to be amended for any reason on or after 1 January 1968.

(2) Where in the calendar year 1967 a person ceased to possess a source the income from which is chargeable to salaries tax under the Sarawak Ordinance for that year of assessment, then, if-


paragraph 80 shall not apply to that person and to the income from that source; and where this sub-paragraph applies to a person his income from that source which is chargeable to salaries tax under that Ordinance for the year of assessment 1967 shall be disregarded for the purposes of this Act.

(3) Where paragraph 80 applies to a person and by the operation of paragraph 62 any income of a person from a source chargeable to salaries tax under the Sarawak Ordinance falls to be treated as gross income for the pre-basis period for a pre-year of assessment, paragraph 62 shall be so modified in its application to that person and that income to treat that income as being income for the year of assessment under the Sarawak Ordinance which coincides with that pre-basis period.

94. Allowance for industrial building under Sarawak Ordinance to continue.

In the case of a building which is an industrial building under the Sarawak Ordinance, the rate at which annual allowances were given in respect of that industrial building under the Sarawak Ordinance shall continue to apply to that building, and the allowances to which a person is entitled by virtue of paragraph 6 of the Fifth Schedule to the Sarawak Ordinance shall be given for the remainder of the years for which that allowance would have been given but for the repeal of that Ordinance instead of any allowance to which that person might otherwise be entitled under this Act.

PART IV
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR WEST MALAYSIA


95. Application and power of remission.

(1) This Part shall apply only to West Malaysia.

(2) Any tax paid or payable by virtue of this Part may be remitted by the Director General on grounds of undue hardship; and section 129 shall apply in relation to any tax so remitted as it applies in relation to tax remitted under that section.

96. Interpretation.

In this Part-

"old tax" means income tax (excluding any tax deemed to be income tax under the West Malaysian Ordinance) imposed under the West Malaysian Ordinance;

"relevant date", in relation to any person, means the date on which the appropriate event mentioned in paragraphs 107 to 113 which gives him entitlement to payment of the West Malaysian credit occurs;

"statutory income", in relation to a source and a year of assessment under the West Malaysian Ordinance, means the amount of the income from that source for the basis period under the West Malaysian Ordinance in relation to that source for a year of assessment under that Ordinance increased by any balancing charge falling to be made in relation to that source for that year and reduced by any allowance falling to be made for that year under sections 16 to 22A of that Ordinance in relation to that source;

"West Malaysian credit" means the amount ascertained under paragraph 102;

"year of assessment 1967" means the year of assessment 1967 under the West Malaysian Ordinance.

97. No statutory income in certain cases.

Where a person in the calendar year 1967 commenced to carry on a business or commenced to exercise an employment or commenced to derive income from a source other than a business or an employment (being a source of a kind to which subsection 31(6) of the West Malaysia Ordinance would, but for this paragraph, have applied for the year of assessment 1967), he hall be deemed not to have any statutory income from that source for the year of assessment 1967.

98. Provisions for certain cases where s. 31 (5) or (7) of West Malaysian Ordinance would have been applicable.

(1) Subject to paragraph 99, where a person in the calendar year 1965 or 1966 commenced to carry on a business or commenced to exercise an employment or commenced to derive income from a source of the kind referred to in paragraph 97, the following subparagraphs shall apply if subsection 31(5) or (7) of the West Malaysian Ordinance would, but for its repeal, have applied in relation to any such source for the year of assessment 1968 under the Ordinance and the year of assessment 1967.

(2) With respect to the year of assessment 1967, the calendar year 1967 shall be taken to be the basis period in relation to any such source for that year of assessment, if the income for that basis period is greater than what would, but for this paragraph, have been the basis period under the West Malaysia Ordinance for that year of assessment, in relation to that source.

(3) With respect to the year of assessment 1968, the calendar year 1968 shall be taken to be the basis period for that year of assessment, in relation to any such source.

(4) With respect to the year of assessment 1969, the person in question shall be deemed not to have statutory income from any source of the kind in question.

99. Paragraph 98 not to apply in certain cases.

Paragraph 98 shall not apply in relation to a person and a source if-


and all such assessments or additional assessments or repayments of tax shall be made as may be necessary in consequence of this paragraph.

100. Tax chargeable for year of assessment 1969.

(1) Notwithstanding subparagraph 98(4), for the purposes of this paragraph the statutory income of a person from a source for the year of assessment 1968 (being a source in relation to which the calendar year 1968 is to be taken to be the basis period for that year of assessment) shall be taken into account in ascertaining the chargeable income of that person for the year of assessment 1969 as if that statutory income were statutory income of his from that source for the year of assessment 1969 and there shall be ascertained the tax chargeable on the chargeable income so ascertained for the year of assessment 1969.

(2) In the case of a person to whom subparagraph (1) applies, the tax chargeable for the year of assessment 1969 on the chargeable income (ascertained without having regard to subparagraph (1)) for that year shall be taken to be so much of the tax chargeable as ascertained under sub-paragraph (1) as bears to the tax so ascertained the same proportion as the total income of that person for that year ascertained without having regard to subparagraph (1) bear to the total income of that person for that year ascertained by having regard to that subparagraph.

101. Ascertainment of old tax payable by a person.

(1) For the purposes of this Part, there shall be ascertained-


(2) In ascertaining under subparagraph (1) the total amount of all old tax payable by a person for the year of assessment 1967 and the amount of that total paid by him, any old tax payable by reason of subparagraph 98 (2) for that year and the amount of old tax paid in respect thereof shall be disregarded.

102. Ascertainment of West Malaysian credit.

(1) Subject to paragraphs 103 and 104 with respect to the amount of the old tax paid by a person as ascertained under paragraph 101, there shall be ascertained an amount (in this Part referred to as the West Malaysian credit) which bears the same proportion to the amount so paid as the total amount of his statutory income bears to the assessable income of that person for the year of assessment 1967.

(2) In the application of subparagraph (1) to the trustees of a trust, the reference therein to old tax paid for the year of assessment 1967 shall be taken to be a reference to so much of that old tax as the aggregate of the statutory income of the trust body from all sources for that year, reduced first by any amount falling to be deducted under section 33(2) of the West Malaysian Ordinance in ascertaining the assessable income of the trust body for that year and thereafter by so much of that aggregate (as so reduced) as falls to be treated as statutory income for that year of a beneficiary or beneficiaries of the trust, bears to the assessable income of the trust body for that year.

(3) In this paragraph "total amount of his statutory income" means the aggregate of his statutory income for the year of assessment 1967 from each source of income of a kind to which subsection 31 (5) or (7) of the West Malaysian Ordinance would have applied (but for its repeal) at some time subsequent to that year, less any amount falling to be deducted under section 33 2) of that Ordinance in ascertaining the assessable income for that year.

103. Exclusion and inclusion of certain income for purposes of paragraph 102.

For the purposes of paragraph 102, in ascertaining in relation to a person the total amount of his statutory income as therein mentioned-




104. Provisions consequent upon acquisition of source.

Where the circumstances are such that a person has an amount of statutory income from a source (in this paragraph referred to
as the old source) of a kind to which subsection 31 (5) or (7) of the West Malaysian Ordinance has applied (or, but for this paragraph, would have applied) for both the year of assessment 1967 and the preceding year of assessment under the West Malaysian Ordinance then, if-


subsection 31 (1) or (2), as the case may be, of the West Malaysian Ordinance shall apply to him in relation to the old source for both those years, and all such assessments or additional assessments or repayments of old tax under that Ordinance (or, if subsection 31 (5) or (7) has been applied to him in relation to the old source, all such assessments or additional assessments or repayments of old tax under that Ordinance) shall be made as may be necessary in consequence of this subparagraph.

105. Meaning of "acquisition".

In subsubparagraph 99(a) and in subsubparagraph 104(a) "acquisition" means acquisition of a source-







106. Additional provisions where paragraph 104 (a) applies.

Where subsubparagraph 104(a) applies to a person and an old source, then, if that source is the only source of his in 1967 or if all sources of his ceased in 1967, the West Malaysian credit to the payment of which he would otherwise be entitled under this Part shall be payable to the person who acquired that old source at the relevant date in relation to that last-mentioned person and, where an old source was acquired by more than one person or two or more old sources were acquired by different persons, that credit shall be apportioned between the acquirers in such proportion as the Director General having regard to the circumstances considered just and reasonable and shall be payable to each of them on the relevant date as if the amount apportioned to each were a West Malaysian credit ascertained as regards him.

107. Events in which West Malaysian credit is payable to individual.

Subject to paragraph 117, the West Malaysian credit of an individual shall be payable upon the date of the occurrence of such one of the following events as first occurs in relation to him:


Provided that subparagraph (d) shall not apply to the individual if at the time of his departure form Malaysia he has any source (being a source the income from which is wholly or partly derived from Malaysia) other than-


108. Matters as to which the Director General is to be satisfied for the purposes of paragraph 107 (d).

For the purposes of subsubparagraph 107 (d), an individual is required to satisfy the Director General that the individual-


109. Events in which West Malaysian credit is payable to company.

(1) Subject to paragraph 117, the West Malaysian credit of a company shall be payable upon the date of the occurrence of such one of the following events as first occurs in relation to the company, that is to say, on the dissolution of the company after 31 December 1967 or on its satisfying the Director General that it has not gone into dissolution before 1 January 1988 or in the case of a company which ceases to have income (other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in the basis year for a year of assessment, on its satisfying the Director General that it was not resident for that basis year or for a year subsequent thereto and that it is not likely to have any income (other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in any of the two years following that basis year or, as the case may be, that subsequent year:

Provided that this paragraph shall not apply on the dissolution of a particular company after 31 December 1967, if at or about the time of the dissolution any of the assets of that particular company available for distribution to its members are transferred-


(2) Where the proviso to subparagraph (1) applies on the transfer of a company's assets, the West Malaysian credit to which, but for that proviso, the company would have been entitled shall be paid in accordance with the following subparagraphs.

(3) Subject to subparagraph (4)-


(4) Where a member or person to whom a West Malaysian credit (or any portion thereof) is to be paid under subparagraph (3) is a company, the amount to be paid shall be treated as a West Malaysian credit of the company and subparagraph (1) shall apply with respect to the payment of that credit.

(5) Where subparagraph (3) does not apply, the West Malaysian credit of the company shall be treated as a West Malaysian credit of the transferee and subparagraph (1) shall apply with respect to the payment of that credit.

(6) In a case where there are two or more transfers (other than transfers to members of the company or to a person or persons having control of the company within the meaning of section 139) to which to proviso to subparagraph (1) applies, subparagraph (5) shall be applied by making such appointment of the West Malaysian credit among the transferees as the Director General considers to be reasonably necessary in order to give proper effect to subparagraph (5) in the circumstances.

110. West Malaysian credit payable to company before dissolution in certain cases.

Subject to paragraph 117, where the Director General is satisfied that the dissolution of a company is imminent and that the company will be entitled on it dissolution to the West Malaysian credit, he may make the amount of the West Malaysian credit available to the liquidator of the company; and, if the company is not dissolved within three months (or such longer period as the Director General may consider reasonable in the circumstances) after the making available of that amount to the liquidator, it shall be the duty of the liquidator to return that amount to the Director General upon being called upon to do so.

111. Trustees and executors.

Subject to paragraph 117, the West Malaysian credit of the trustee of a trust or the executors of the estate of a deceased person shall be payable-



112. Hindu joint families.

Subsubparagraph 107 (a), (b), (c), (e) and (f) shall apply in relation to a Hindu joint family as if those subparagraphs referred to the family's manager or karta.

113. Provisions applicable where paragraphs 107 to 112 do not apply.

Subject to paragraph 117, the West Malaysian credit of a person to whom none of paragraphs 107 to 112 applies shall be payable-


114. Married persons: general.

Where section 47 of the West Malaysian Ordinance applies to a married woman and her husband for the year of assessment 1967, then, in the application of the foregoing paragraphs of this Part to the husband-


115. Married persons: disposals of wife's credit.

Where a marriage takes place after 31 December 1967, the wife of that marriage shall not be entitled to any West Malaysian credit to which she would otherwise have been entitled, and any such credit shall be payable to the husband of that marriage as if it were a credit ascertained as regards him under paragraphs 101 to 105 or under paragraph 109.

116. Married persons: modification of paragraphs 107 and 108.

In any case where paragraph 107 or 108 applies to the husband and wife of a marriage-


117. Power to set off West Malaysian credit against tax payable.

Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraphs of this Part, where any person becomes entitled to a West Malaysian credit in any calendar year, the Director General may withhold payment thereof for the purposes of setting off the amount thereof against any tax or previous tax payable by that person.

118. Certain income to be disregarded.

Subject to paragraph 104, where any person ceases to possess a source in the calendar year 1967 (being a source to which section 31(5) or (7) of the West Malaysian Ordinance is applicable for both the year of assessment 1967 and the preceding year of assessment under that Ordinance), any income of that person from that source shall be disregarded for the purposes of this Act.


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