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ARTICLE 3
General Definitions
(1) For the purposes of this Convention, unless the context otherwise requires:
- (a) the terms "a Contracting State" and "the other Contracting State" mean the Czech Republic or the Slovak Republic, as the context requires;
- (b) the term "the Slovak Republic" means the Slovak Republic, and when used in a geographical sense, means the territory over which the Slovak Republic exercises its sovereignty and jurisdiction in accordance with international law;
- (c) the term "the Czech Republic" means the territory of the Czech Republic over which, under Czech legislation and in accordance with international law, the sovereign rights of the Czech Republic are exercised;
- (d) the term "person" includes an individual, a company and any other body of persons;
- (e) the term "company" means any body corporate or any entity which is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes;
- (f) the term "enterprise" applies to the carrying on of any business;
- (g) the terms "enterprise of a Contracting State" and "enterprise of the other Contracting State" mean respectively an enterprise carried on by a resident of a Contracting State and an enterprise carried on by a resident of the other Contracting State;
- (h) the term "business" includes the performance of professional services and of other activities of an independent character;
- (i) the term "international traffic" means any transport by a ships, boat, aircraft, railway or road vehicle operated by an enterprise that has its place of effective management in a Contracting State, except when the ships, boat, aircraft, railway or road vehicle is operated solely between places in the other Contracting State;
- (j) the term "national" means:
- (i) any individual possessing the nationality of a Contracting State;
- (ii) any legal person, partnership or association deriving its status as such from the laws in force in a Contracting State;
- (k) the term "competent authority" means:
- (i) in the Slovak Republic, the Minister of Finance or his authorised representative;
- (ii) in the Czech Republic, the Minister of Finance or his authorised representative.
(2) As regards the application of this Convention at any time by a Contracting State, any term not defined therein shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning that it has at that time under the law of that State for the purposes of the taxes to which this Convention applies, any meaning under the applicable tax laws of that State prevailing over a meaning given to the term under other laws of that State.