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ARTICLE 3
General Definitions
(1) For the purposes of this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires:
- (a) the terms:
- (i) "Kazakhstan" means the Republic of Kazakhstan, and when used in a geographical sense, the term "Kazakhstan" includes the territory in which Kazakhstan, for certain purposes, may exercise sovereign rights and jurisdiction in accordance with international law and in which the law relating to Kazakhstan tax are applicable;
- (ii) "Islamic Republic of Iran" means the territories under the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran;
- (b) the terms a "Contracting State" and "the other Contracting State" mean Kazakhstan or Islamic Republic of Iran, as the context requires;
- (c) the term "person" includes an individual, a company and any other body of persons;
- (d) the term "company" means any body corporate or any entity which is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes;
- (e) the term "registered office" means head office registered and created under the relevant laws of either Contracting State;
- (f) 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;
- (g) the term "international traffic" means any transport by a ship, boat, aircraft or road and railway vehicle operated by an enterprise of a Contracting State, except when the ship, boat, aircraft or road and railway vehicle is operated solely between places in the other Contracting State;
- (h) the term "competent authority" means:
- (i) in case of Kazakhstan: the Ministry of Finance or its authorized representative;
- (ii) in case of the Islamic Republic of Iran: the Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance or his authorised representative;
- (i) the term "national" means:
- (i) any individual possessing the nationality of a Contracting State;
- (ii) any legal person, deriving its status as such from the laws in force in a Contracting State;
- (j) the term "capital" means movable and immovable property, and includes (but is not limited to) stock or other evidences of ownership rights, notes, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, and patents, trademarks, copyrights or other like right or property.
(2) As regards the application of the Agreement at any time by a Contracting State any term not defined therein shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning which it has at that time under the law of that State concerning the taxes to which the Agreement applies.