16.5. Where a share of the capital stock of an operator is issued to a partnership under an agreement in writing entered into between the partnership and the operator, under which the operator has agreed to incur expenses in respect of exploration, mineral deposit evaluation or mine development work, that would be expenses referred to in subparagraph b of paragraph 1 of section 16.1, and to renounce, under the Taxation Act (chapter I-3), in favour of the partnership, an amount that does not exceed the consideration received by the operator for the share, relating to expenses so incurred by the operator, the expenses which relate to the amount or part thereof that has been renounced and which the partnership attributes to each partner that is not a legal person are deemed, from the day on which they are incurred, never to have been such expenses incurred by the operator.
1994, c. 47, s. 16; 1996, c. 4, s. 11.