Section 176: Person with interest in relevant land having fixture for purposes of qualifying activity
647.This section is based on part of section 51(1) and (2) of CAA 1990. It provides one of the ways in which a person may be treated as the owner of a fixture.
648.This provision deals with the circumstances in which a person, with an interest in the relevant land, incurs capital expenditure on the provision of plant or machinery and the plant or machinery becomes a fixture. Subsection (1) deals with this basic rule.
649.Subsections (2) and (3) provide tie-breaker rules if two (or more) persons might otherwise be treated as the owner under subsection (1). In Rule 3, it is the lesser interest that qualifies.