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PART IX
ROYALTIES, FEES AND DEVELOPMENT CONTRIBUTIONS
61.
—(1) A company engaged in any industry which is desirous of entering into an agreement or arrangement with a non-resident person whereby royalties or technical assistance fees or contributions to research and development costs are payable to the non-resident person, may apply to the Minister for a certificate certifying those royalties, fees or contributions to be approved royalties, fees or contributions, as the case may be, for the purposes of this Part.
(2) The application shall be in such form containing such particulars as may be prescribed, and shall be accompanied by a copy of the proposed agreement or arrangement certified by the non-resident person.
(3) Where the Minister is satisfied as to the bona fides of any application made under this section and that it is expedient in the public interest to do so, he may issue a certificate in the terms of the application, subject to such conditions as he thinks fit.
62.
—(1) If for any reason any approved royalties, fees or contributions payable by a company cease to become payable before the expiry of the period of agreement or arrangement related thereto, the company shall, within 30 days from the date on which the royalties, fees or contributions cease to become payable, give notice thereof to the Minister.
(2) The company to which a certificate has been issued under section 61 shall not, without the prior sanction of the Minister, amend or otherwise vary the terms of the agreement or arrangement related thereto, except in cases where for the same consideration the amount of the approved royalties, fees or contributions is to be reduced and in that event the company shall notify the Minister accordingly within 30 days from the date on which the amount is reduced.
63. [Repealed by Act 1/95]
64.
—(1) Notwithstanding section 43(1)(b) of the Income Tax Act, the Minister may, subject to subsection (2), if he is satisfied that it is expedient in the public interest to do so, by an endorsement to that effect on the approved royalties, fees or contributions certificate, exempt from tax or authorise that tax at such concessionary rate as specified in the certificate be levied and paid upon any approved royalties, fees or contributions received by a non-resident person.
(2) Where a company has contravened section 62(2) or any condition imposed by the Minister under section 61(3), the amount of tax which, but for subsection (1), would have been deductible by the company from the royalties, fees or contributions paid by it to the non-resident person under section 45A of the Income Tax Act [Cap. 134] shall be deemed to have been deducted from the royalties, fees and contributions and shall be a debt due from the company to the Government and shall, with the prior sanction of the Minister, be recoverable in the manner provided by section 90 of the Income Tax Act.
[1/95]
Note: (from Y/A 1994).
[1/95]
Note: (from Y/A 1994).
65. Where, in accordance with section 64, the tax payable on any approved royalties, fees or contributions is at a reduced rate, and it is proved to the satisfaction of the Comptroller that the royalties, fees or contributions, either wholly or in part, have been expended in the acquisition of ordinary share capital in the company from which those payments were received, the amount of income equal to that expenditure shall be exempt from tax.
[22/87]