517.5.6. A series of transactions that includes the disposition by an individual of eligible primary and manufacturing sectors shares of a corporation (in this section referred to as the “particular corporation”) may be considered to be an eligible business transfer of the individual only if the individual or the individual’s spouse was, while the individual owned those shares and during the 24-month period that immediately preceded the disposition of the shares, actively engaged in a business carried on by the particular corporation or by a corporation in which the particular corporation had a substantial interest.
For the purposes of the first paragraph, the following rules apply:(a) where the individual or the individual’s spouse, as the case may be, is, immediately before the disposition of the shares, unable to actively engage in a business carried on by the particular corporation or by a corporation in which the particular corporation had a substantial interest due to an illness or a disability, the first paragraph is to be read as if “the 24-month period that immediately preceded the disposition of the shares” were replaced by “the 24-month period that preceded the time at which the individual’s inability, or that of the individual’s spouse, began”;
(b) the individual is deemed, during the 24-month period that immediately precedes the disposition of the shares, to own the shares and to have been actively engaged in a business carried on by the particular corporation or by a corporation in which the particular corporation had a substantial interest ifi. the individual’s spouse died in the 24-month period that precedes the disposition of the shares, and
ii. the individual or the individual’s spouse was actively engaged in a business carried on by the particular corporation or by a corporation in which the particular corporation had a substantial interest during the 24-month period that precedes the date of death; and
(c) where an individual was actively engaged in a business during a particular period and all or substantially all of the assets used in the course of carrying on that business is disposed of to a corporation as consideration for shares of the capital stock of the corporation, the individual is deemed to have actively engaged in a business carried on by the corporation for the particular period.
2017, c. 12017, c. 1, s. 1371; 2017, c. 292017, c. 29, s. 771.