New Business Tax System (Consolidation and Other Measures) Act 2003 (16 of 2003)

Schedule 16   Consolidation: transitional foreign-held membership structures

Part 1   Amendment of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

2   Section 703-45

Repeal the section, substitute:

703-45 Subsidiary members or nominees interposed between the head company and a subsidiary member of a consolidated group or a consolidatable group

(1) This section describes, for the purposes of item 2, column 4 of the table in subsection 703-15(2), a set of requirements that must be met for an entity (the test entity ) to be a *subsidiary member of a *consolidated group or a *consolidatable group at a particular time (the test time ).

(2) At the test time, each of the interposed entities must either:

(a) be a *subsidiary member of the group; or

(b) hold *membership interests in:

(i) the test entity; or

(ii) a subsidiary member of the group interposed between the *head company of the group and the test entity;

only as a nominee of one or more entities each of which is a *member of the group.