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Proclamation Giving Notice that the Convention Between the Government of Canada and the Swiss Federal Council for the Avoidance of Double Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital Came into Force on April 21, 1998

SI/98-94

AGREEMENTS AND CONVENTIONS

AN ACT TO IMPLEMENT CONVENTIONS BETWEEN CANADA AND MOROCCO, CANADA AND PAKISTAN, CANADA AND SINGAPORE, CANADA AND THE PHILIPPINES, CANADA AND THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC AND CANADA AND SWITZERLAND FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF DOUBLE TAXATION WITH RESPECT TO INCOME TAX

Registration 1998-09-30

Proclamation Giving Notice that the Convention Between the Government of Canada and the Swiss Federal Council for the Avoidance of Double Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital Came into Force on April 21, 1998

ROMÉO LEBLANC

[L.S.]

Canada

Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories QUEEN, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

To All to Whom these Presents shall come or whom the same may in any way concern,

Greeting:

MORRIS ROSENBERG
Deputy Attorney General

A Proclamation

Whereas, by Order in Council P.C. 1998-1459 of August 26, 1998, the Governor in Council has directed that a proclamation do issue

  • (a) pursuant to section 18 of An Act to implement conventions between Canada and Morocco, Canada and Pakistan, Canada and Singapore, Canada and the Philippines, Canada and the Dominican Republic and Canada and Switzerland for the avoidance of double taxation with respect to income tax, giving notice that the Convention Between Canada and Switzerland for the Avoidance of Double Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital, set out in Schedule VI to that Act, ceased to be effective pursuant to paragraph 3 of Article 28 of the Convention Between the Government of Canada and the Swiss Federal Council for the Avoidance of Double Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital, annexed hereto, in respect of taxes to which the latter Convention applies in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2 of that Article, and

  • (b) pursuant to subsection 19(4) of that Act, giving notice that the Convention Between the Government of Canada and the Swiss Federal Council for the Avoidance of Double Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital, annexed hereto, came into force upon the exchange of instruments of its ratification, on April 21, 1998;

Now Know You that We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council for Canada, do by this Our Proclamation give notice that

  • (a) the Convention Between Canada and Switzerland for the Avoidance of Double Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital, set out in Schedule VI to An Act to implement conventions between Canada and Morocco, Canada and Pakistan, Canada and Singapore, Canada and the Philippines, Canada and the Dominican Republic and Canada and Switzerland for the avoidance of double taxation with respect to income tax, ceased to be effective pursuant to paragraph 3 of Article 28 of the Convention Between the Government of Canada and the Swiss Federal Council for the Avoidance of Double Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital, annexed hereto, in respect of taxes to which the latter Convention applies in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 2 of that Article, and

  • (b) the Convention Between the Government of Canada and the Swiss Federal Council for the Avoidance of Double Taxation with Respect to Taxes on Income and on Capital, annexed hereto, came into force upon the exchange of instruments of its ratification, on April 21, 1998.

Of All Which Our Loving Subjects and all others whom these Presents may concern are hereby required to take notice and to govern themselves accordingly.

In Testimony Whereof, We have caused these Our Letters to be made Patent and the Great Seal of Canada to be hereunto affixed. Witness: Our Right Trusty and Well-beloved Roméo A. LeBlanc, a Member of Our Privy Council for Canada, Chancellor and Principal Companion of Our Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Military Merit, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.

At Our Government House, in Our City of Ottawa, this eighteenth day of September in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight and in the forty-seventh year of Our Reign.

By command,
KEVIN G. LYNCH
Deputy Registrar General of Canada
 

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