961.24. For the purposes of sections 921.2, 926, 933, 961.15, 961.19 and 961.20, where, at any particular time, a taxpayer which is a trust governed by a registered retirement savings plan or a registered retirement income fund acquires, holds or disposes of a unit in a qualified trust, the qualified trust may, to the extent that it has made a valid election, in respect of a period, under subsection 1 of section 259 of the Income Tax Act (Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, chapter 1, 5th Supplement), elect in prescribed manner, in respect of that period, to have the following rules apply:(a) the taxpayer is deemed not to acquire, hold or dispose of at that time, as the case may be, the unit;
(b) where the taxpayer holds the unit at that time, the taxpayer is deemed to hold at that time that proportion, referred to in this section as the "specified portion", of each property, in this section referred to as a "relevant property", held by the qualified trust at that time that one or, where the unit is a fraction of a whole unit, that fraction, is of the number of units of the qualified trust outstanding at that time;
(c) the cost amount to the taxpayer at that time of the specified portion of a relevant property is deemed to be equal to the specified portion of the cost amount at that time to the qualified trust of the relevant property;
(d) where that time is the later of the time the qualified trust acquires the relevant property and the time the taxpayer acquires the unit, the taxpayer is deemed to acquire the specified portion of a relevant property at that time;
(e) where that time is the time the specified portion of a relevant property is deemed under paragraph d to have been acquired, the fair market value of the specified portion of the relevant property at that time is deemed to be the specified portion of the fair market value of the relevant property at the time of its acquisition by the qualified trust;
(f) where that time is the time immediately before the time the qualified trust disposes of a particular relevant property, the taxpayer is deemed to dispose of, immediately after that time, the specified portion of the particular relevant property for proceeds equal to the specified portion of the proceeds of disposition to the qualified trust of the particular relevant property;
(g) where that time is the time immediately before the time the taxpayer disposes of the unit, the taxpayer is deemed to dispose of, immediately after that time, the specified portion of each relevant property for proceeds equal to the specified portion of the fair market value of that relevant property at that time; and
(h) where the taxpayer is deemed because of this section to have acquired a portion of a relevant property as a consequence of the acquisition of the unit by the taxpayer and the acquisition of the relevant property by the qualified trust, and subsequently to have disposed of the specified portion of the relevant property, the specified portion of the relevant property is, for the purpose of determining the consequences under this Act of the disposition and without affecting the proceeds of disposition of the specified portion of the relevant property, deemed to be the portion of the relevant property the taxpayer is deemed to have acquired.