1. For the purposes of this Convention, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the term “person” includes an individual, a company and any other body of persons;
(b) the term “company” means any body corporate or any entity that is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes;
(c) the terms “enterprise of a Contracting State” and “enterprise of the other Contracting State” mean respectively an enterprise carried on by a resident of a Contracting State and an enterprise carried on by a resident of the other Contracting State;
(d) the term “international traffic” means any transport by a ship or aircraft, except when the ship or aircraft is operated solely between places in a Contracting State and the enterprise that operates the ship or aircraft is not an enterprise of that State;
(e) the term “competent authority” means:
(i) (in State A): ……………………………………..
(ii) (in State B): ……………………………………..
(f) the term “national” means:
(i) any individual possessing the nationality of a Contracting State
(ii) any legal person, partnership or association deriving its status as such from the laws in force in a Contracting State;
(g) the term “recognized pension fund” of a Contracting State means an entity or arrangement established in that State that is treated as a separate person under the taxation laws of that State and:
(i) that is established and operated exclusively or almost exclusively to administer or provide retirement benefits and ancillary or incidental benefits to individuals and that is regulated as such by that State or one of its political subdivisions or local authorities, or
(ii) that is established and operated exclusively or almost exclusively to invest funds for the benefit of entities or arrangements to which subdivision (i) applies.
2. As regards the application of the Convention at any time by a Contracting State, any term not defined therein shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning that it has at that time under the law of that State for the purposes of the taxes to which the Convention applies, any meaning under the applicable tax laws of that State prevailing over a meaning given to the term under other laws of that State.
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