49. Subject to section 49.2, an employee who acquires a security under the agreement referred to in section 48 is deemed to receive because of the employee’s office or employment, in the taxation year in which the employee acquires the security, a benefit equal to the amount by which the value of the security at the time the employee acquires it exceeds the aggregate of the amount paid or to be paid to the qualifying person by the employee for the security and the amount paid by the employee to acquire the right to acquire the security.
1972, c. 23, s. 43; 1986, c. 15, s. 40; 1988, c. 4, s. 22; 1992, c. 1, s. 15; 1993, c. 16, s. 28; 1997, c. 3, s. 71; 1998, c. 16, s. 67; 2001, c. 53, s. 15; 2003, c. 2, s. 16; 2011, c. 34, s. 16.