1029.8.36.0.21.2. For the purpose of determining the amount that a corporation that carries on or may carry on its business in a biotechnology development centre is deemed to have paid to the Minister, on account of its tax payable for a taxation year, in accordance with section 1029.8.36.0.19 or 1029.8.36.0.20, each of the rates of 40% referred to in the first paragraph of that section and in subparagraph a of the first paragraph of section 1029.8.36.0.23 is replaced by a rate of 30% if(a) the certificate referred to in paragraph a of section 771.12 that is held by the corporation provides for the application of that reduced rate; or
(b) control of the corporation was acquired at the beginning of the year or of a preceding taxation year, but after 11 June 2003, by a person or a group of persons.
However, the condition set out in subparagraph b of the first paragraph is deemed not to be met if the acquisition of control(a) occurs before 1 July 2004 and Investissement Québec certifies that it results from a transaction that was sufficiently advanced on 11 June 2003 and was binding on the parties on that date;
(b) is by an exempt corporation, by a person or group of persons that controls an exempt corporation, or by a group of persons each member of which is an exempt corporation or a person who, alone or together with other members of the group, controls such a corporation;
(c) derives from the exercise after 11 June 2003 of one or more rights described in paragraph b of section 20 that were acquired before 12 June 2003; or
(d) derives from the performance after 11 June 2003 of one or more obligations described in the third paragraph of section 21.3.5 that were contracted before 12 June 2003.