419. Any share of the capital stock of a corporation, or any right in or to such a share, acquired by a taxpayer under circumstances described in paragraph e of section 395 or 408, or in paragraph c of section 418.2 is deemed,(a) if it was acquired before 13 November 1981, not to be a capital property of the taxpayer but, subject to section 851.22.25, to be inventory of the taxpayer acquired at a cost to him of nil; and
(b) if it was acquired after 12 November 1981, to have been acquired by the taxpayer at a cost to him of nil.