714.1. For the purposes of this Title, where at any time a corporation makes a gift of a work of art referred to in the second paragraph to a donee referred to in any of paragraphs b to e and g to j of the definition of “qualified donee” in section 999.2 or in any of subparagraphs i, iv and v of paragraph a of the definition of “qualified donee” in subsection 1 of section 149.1 of the Income Tax Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. 1 (5th Suppl.)) and whose registration as a qualified donee has not been revoked by the Minister of National Revenue, other than such a donee who acquires the work of art in connection with its primary mission, the corporation is deemed, in respect of that work of art, not to have made a gift unless the donee disposes of the work of art on or before 31 December of the fifth calendar year following the year that includes that time.
The work of art to which the first paragraph refers is a print, an etching, a drawing, a painting, a sculpture or any work of a similar nature, a tapestry or hand-woven carpet or hand-made appliqué, a lithograph, a rare folio, a rare manuscript or a rare book, a stamp or a coin.
This section does not apply where a corporation makes a gift of a work of art referred to in section 716.0.1.2 to a donee described in subparagraph c of the second paragraph of that section.
1995, c. 63, s. 50; 1997, c. 3, s. 71; 1999, c. 83, s. 69; 2004, c. 21, s. 100; 2005, c. 23, s. 59; 2006, c. 36, s. 52; 2012, c. 8, s. 63; 2013, c. 10, s. 39; 2015, c. 21, s. 235.