Finance Act, 1976

Increase in limit of capital allowances for vehicles.

31.—(1) Sections 25 to 29 of the Finance Act, 1973 , shall have effect, in relation to expenditure incurred on the provision or hiring of a vehicle to which those sections apply, as if for “£2,500”, in each place where it occurs in those sections, there were substituted “£3,500”.

(2) The reference in subsection (1) to expenditure incurred on the provision or hiring of a vehicle does not include—

(a) as respects the said sections 25 to 27, a reference to expenditure incurred on or before the 28th day of January, 1976, or incurred within twelve months after that day under a contract entered into before that day, and

(b) as respects subsections (2) and (3) of the said section 28 and the said section 29, a reference to expenditure under a contract entered into on or before the said 28th day of January, 1976.