278. Despite section 234, this division applies if, at any time in a taxation year, an amount becomes receivable by a taxpayer as proceeds of disposition of a capital property (in this division referred to as “former property”) that is not a share of the capital stock of a corporation but that is either property the proceeds of disposition of which are described in section 280 or a property that was, immediately before the disposition, a former business property of the taxpayer, and the taxpayer acquires, in the case of a former property the proceeds of disposition of which are described in section 280, before the end of the second taxation year following the year or, if it is later, before the end of the 24-month period following the year, or, in any other case, before the end of the first taxation year following the year or, if it is later, before the end of the 12-month period following the year, a capital property that is a replacement property for the taxpayer’s former property and the replacement property has not been disposed of by the taxpayer before the time at which the taxpayer has disposed of the former property.
1972, c. 23, s. 258; 1975, c. 22, s. 50; 1978, c. 26, s. 47; 2001, c. 7, s. 38; 2004, c. 8, s. 54; 2009, c. 15, s. 70.