International Tax Agreements Amendment Act (No. 1) 2011 (45 of 2011)

Schedule 1   Existing agreements

Part 1   Amendments

International Tax Agreements Act 1953

8   Sections 5 and 5A

Repeal the sections, substitute:

5 Current agreements have the force of law

(1) Subject to this Act, on and after the date of entry into force of a provision of an agreement mentioned below, the provision has the force of law according to its tenor.

Note 1: The table also lists some provisions of this Act that relate to the agreement.

Note 2: Some current agreements are given the force of law by other provisions of this Act.

Current agreements

Agreement

Related provisions

Argentine agreement

section 11ZI

Belgian protocol (No. 1)

section 11C

Belgian protocol (No. 2)

section 11C

British Virgin Islands agreement

nil

Canadian protocol (No. 1)

section 6A

Chinese agreement

section 11S

Czech agreement

nil

Fijian agreement

nil

Finnish agreement

nil

French convention

nil

Greek airline profits agreement

nil

Hungarian agreement

nil

Indian agreement

nil

Indonesian agreement

nil

Isle of Man agreement

nil

Italian airline profits agreement

nil

Japanese convention

nil

Jersey agreement

nil

Kiribati agreement

nil

Malaysian protocol (No. 1)

sections 11F and 11FA

Malaysian protocol (No. 2)

sections 11F and 11FB

Mexican agreement

nil

Netherlands agreement

section 11A

Netherlands protocol (No. 2)

section 11A

New Zealand convention

nil

Norwegian convention

nil

Papua New Guinea agreement

nil

Polish agreement

section 11ZA

Romanian agreement

nil

Russian agreement

nil

Singaporean protocol (No. 1)

section 7

Singaporean protocol (No. 2)

section 7

Slovak agreement

nil

South African agreement

nil

South African protocol (No. 2)

nil

Spanish agreement

nil

Sri Lankan agreement

nil

Taipei agreement

section 11ZF

Thai agreement

nil

United Kingdom convention

nil

United States convention

sections 6 and 20

United States protocol (No. 1)

sections 6 and 20

Vietnamese agreement

nil

Vietnamese notes (No. 1)

section 11ZCA

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to Article 23 of the United States convention (as amended by the United States protocol (No. 1)).

5A Earlier agreements continue to have the force of law

The provisions of each of the agreements mentioned below, so far as those provisions affect Australian tax, continue to have the force of law for tax in respect of income or fringe benefits in relation to which the agreement remains effective.

Agreement

Canadian 1957 agreement

Finnish 1984 agreement

Finnish 1997 protocol

French 1969 airline profits agreement

French 1976 agreement

French 1989 protocol

Japanese 1969 agreement

New Zealand 1960 agreement

New Zealand 1972 agreement

New Zealand 1995 agreement

New Zealand 2005 protocol

Norwegian 1982 convention

United Kingdom 1946 agreement

United Kingdom 1967 agreement

United Kingdom 1980 protocol

United States 1953 convention