16. Section 19A of the principal Act is amended —
(a)
by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsections:
“(1) Notwithstanding section 19, where a person carrying on a trade, profession or business incurs capital expenditure on the provision of machinery or plant for the purposes of that trade, profession or business, there shall be made to him, on due claim for any year of assessment and in lieu of the allowances provided by section 19, an annual allowance of 33 1/3% in respect of the capital expenditure incurred.
(1A) Any annual allowance under this section in respect of any asset for any year of assessment shall not exceed the amount of the capital expenditure of the asset remaining unallowed as at the beginning of the basis period for that year of assessment.”;
(b)
by deleting subsection (9) and substituting the following subsections:
“(9) Notwithstanding section 19, where a person proves to the satisfaction of the Comptroller that he has, for the purposes of a trade, business or profession carried on by him, registered any new vehicle as a replacement for an existing vehicle which used diesel oil as fuel and which was registered before 1st January 1991 and deregistered on or after 27th February 1999, he shall, in lieu of the allowances provided by subsection (1) or section 19, be entitled, if he so elects, to an allowance of 100% in respect of the capital expenditure incurred on the provision of that new vehicle.
(9A) Notwithstanding section 19, where a person proves to the satisfaction of the Comptroller that he has, for the purposes of a trade, business or profession carried on by him, registered during the period from 15th February 2007 to 14th February 2012 any new vehicle which uses diesel oil as fuel, as a replacement for an existing vehicle which used diesel oil as fuel and which was registered on or after 1st January 1991 but before 1st October 2006, he shall, in lieu of the allowances provided by subsection (1) or section 19, be entitled, if he so elects, to an allowance of 100% in respect of the capital expenditure incurred on the provision of that new vehicle.”;
(c)
by deleting the words “, and registered before 1st January 1991,” in the definition of “existing vehicle” in subsection (15);
(d)
by deleting the words “on or after 27th February 1999 but” in paragraph (b) of the definition of “existing vehicle” in subsection (15); and
(e)
by deleting subsection (16).