Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

The modifications in section 130‑40 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 apply to you for rights (issued to you by a company before 16 August 1989) to acquire shares, or options to acquire shares, in that company, only if you were a shareholder of that company.

The modifications in section 130‑40 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 apply to you for rights (issued to you by a company after 15 August 1989 and before the start of the 1993‑94 income year) to acquire shares, or options to acquire shares in the company because you were a shareholder of another company, only if the companies were members of the same wholly‑owned group for the whole of the income year in which the issue occurred.

The modification in item 3 of the table in section 130‑40 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 applies also to your exercise of rights (that you acquired before 20 September 1985) to acquire shares, or options to acquire shares, in a company.