1029.8.1.3. Subject to Division II.4, for the purposes of the first paragraph of section 1029.8.6, where a corporation has paid an amount that is a qualified expenditure under a university research contract and a university foundation has become surety for that corporation in respect of the payment of amounts used for the financing of scientific research and experimental development provided for in the contract, all or any part of the amount of the qualified expenditure that may reasonably be attributed to expenditures for the scientific research and experimental development that an eligible university entity has made in Québec under that contract in a taxation year of the corporation is deemed not to exceed $1,500,000.
Notwithstanding the first paragraph and section 1029.8.1.2, where the amount of a qualified expenditure would, but for this paragraph, be reduced because of the first paragraph and of that section 1029.8.1.2, all or any part of the amount of a qualified expenditure paid by a corporation under a university research contract that may reasonably be attributed to expenditures for scientific research and experimental development that an eligible university entity has made in Québec under that contract in a taxation year of the corporation, is deemed, subject to Division II.4 and for the purposes of subparagraph a of the first paragraph of section 1029.8.6, not to exceed the proportion of $1,500,000 that the amount of the qualified expenditure determined in accordance with section 1029.8.1.2 for the year is of the amount that the amount of that qualified expenditure would be for the year but for that section 1029.8.1.2 and this section.