Double taxation and international tax enforcement arrangements to have effect

2.  It is declared that—

(a)the arrangements specified in the Protocol set out in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order and in the Interpretative Protocol set out in Part 2 of that Schedule, which further vary the arrangements set out in the Schedule to the Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) Order 1980(1), have been made with the Government of Canada.

(b)the arrangements have been made with a view to affording relief from double taxation in relation to capital gains tax, corporation tax, income tax and petroleum revenue tax and taxes of a similar character imposed by the laws of Canada and for the purposes of assisting international tax enforcement; and

(c)it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect.

(1)

S.I. 1980/709; the arrangements scheduled to that Order were amended by the arrangements set out in the Schedules to S.I. 1980/1528, S.I. 1985/1996, and S.I. 2003/2619.