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....r other sales outlet; and (j) an installation or structure used for the exploration of natural resources, but only if so used for a period of more than six months. 3. A building site or construction, installation or assembly project constitutes a permanent establishment only if it lasts more than six months. 4. An enterprise shall be deemed to have a permanent establishment in a Contracting State and to carry on business through that permanent establishment if it carries on supervisory activities in that Contracting State for more than six months in connection with a building site or construction, installation or assembly project which is being undertaken in that Contracting State. 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 3 and ....
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....the Convention, the term "permanent establishment" shall be deemed not to include: (a) (i) the use of facilities solely for the purpose of storage or display of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise; (ii) the maintenance of a stock of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise solely for the purpose of storage or display; (iii) the maintenance of a stock of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise solely for the purpose of processing by another enterprise; (iv) the maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for the purpose of purchasing goods or merchandise or of collecting information, for the enterprise; (b) the maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for the purpose of carrying on....
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....or by the same enterprise or closely related enterprises at the two places, constitute complementary functions that are part of a cohesive business operation. 7. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2, where a person - other than an agent of an independent status to whom paragraph 8 applies - is acting in a Contracting State on behalf of an enterprise of the other Contracting State, that enterprise shall be deemed to have a permanent establishment in the first-mentioned Contracting State, if (a) he has and habitually exercises in that Contracting State an authority to conclude contracts on behalf of the enterprise, unless his activities are limited to those mentioned in paragraph 6 which, if exercised through a fixed place ....
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....y owned by that enterprise or that the enterprise has the right to use; or (c) for the provision of services by that enterprise, that enterprise shall be deemed to have a permanent establishment in that Contracting State in respect of any activities which that person undertakes for the enterprise unless these activities, if they were exercised by the enterprise through a fixed place of business of that enterprise situated in that Contracting State, would not cause that fixed place of business to be deemed to constitute a permanent establishment under the definition of permanent establishment included in the provisions of Article 5 of the Convention. 8. An enterprise shall not be deemed to have a permanent establishment in a Contracting ....