308.5. For the purposes of this division, where it can reasonably be considered that one of the main purposes of one or more transactions or events was to cause two or more persons to be related to each other or to cause a corporation to control another corporation, so that section 308.1 would, but for this section, not apply to a dividend, those persons shall be deemed not to be related to each other or the corporation shall be deemed not to control the other corporation, as the case may be.
1982, c. 5, s. 66; 1986, c. 15, s. 59; 1996, c. 39, s. 102; 1997, c. 3, s. 71.