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(1) Where on any day a debt (to which section 541 does not apply by virtue of subsection (6) of that section) owed to a person in a currency other than Irish currency the currency of the State, becomes a debt in Irish currency the currency of the State as a result of the currency of a State being substituted by another currency, which other currency also on that day becomes Irish currency the currency of the State, then, subject to subsection (2), that debt shall be deemed, for the purposes of the Capital Gains Tax Acts, on the day preceding that day, to be disposed of by the person and immediately reacquired by the person at its market value.

“assurance company” has the meaning assigned to it in section 706;

“life business fund” has the meaning assigned to it in section 719;

(I) in case of an assurance company, section 719(2) shall apply in respect of the debt as if, for this purpose only, the deemed disposal day was the day on which an accounting period of the company ends and the chargeable gain or allowable loss thereby accruing shall be included in the net amount (within the meaning of section 720) in respect of the accounting period in which the deemed disposal day falls, and

(I) in case of an assurance company, section 719(2) shall apply in respect of the debt as if, for this purpose only, the deemed disposal day was the day on which an accounting period of the company ends and the chargeable gain or allowable loss thereby accruing shall be included in the net amount (within the meaning of section 720) in respect of the accounting period in which the deemed disposal day falls, and

“special investment fund” has the meaning assigned to it in section 723;

“special investment scheme” has the meaning assigned to it in section 737;

“undertaking for collective investment” has the meaning assigned to it in section 738.

(II) in case of an undertaking for collective investment, section 738(4)(a) shall apply in respect of the debt as if, for this purpose only, the deemed disposal day was the day on which an accounting period of the company ends and the chargeable gain or allowable loss thereby accruing shall be included in the net amount (within the meaning of section 738(4)(b)) in respect of the accounting period in which the deemed disposal day falls.

(II) in case of an undertaking for collective investment, section 738(4)(a) shall apply in respect of the debt as if, for this purpose only, the deemed disposal day was the day on which an accounting period of the company ends and the chargeable gain or allowable loss thereby accruing shall be included in the net amount (within the meaning of section 738(4)(b)) in respect of the accounting period in which the deemed disposal day falls.

(c) Where the person referred to in subsection (1) is an undertaking for collective investment and is not a company, subsection (2) shall not apply but the chargeable gain or allowable loss which accrues to the undertaking by virtue of subsection (1) shall be treated as accruing to the undertaking by virtue of paragraph (a) of section 738(4) and the provisions of that section shall apply accordingly.