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tor-geral dos Impostos) or their authorised representative; ü) In India: the Central Government in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) or their authorised representative;

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 «fiscal year» means:

i) In the case of Portugal, the civil year as laid down in the IRS Code or the taxation period as defined in the IRC Code; //) In the case of India, «previous year» as defined under section 3 of the Income Tax Act, 1961.

2 — As regards the application of the Convention 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 for the purposes of the taxes to which the Convention applies, any meaning under the appli-cabletax laws of that State prevailing over a meaning given to the term under other laws of that State.

Article 4

Resident

1 — For the purposes of this Convention, the term «resident of a Contracting State» means any person who, under the laws of that State, is liable to tax therein by reason of his domicile, residence, place of management or any other criterion of a similar nature. This term, however, does not include any person who is liable to tax in that State in respect only of income from sources in that State.

2 — Where by reason of the provisions of paragraph 1 an individual is a resident of both Contracting States, then his status shall be determined as follows:

a) He shall be deemed to be a resident only of the State in which he has a permanent home available to him; if he has a permanent home available to him in both States, he shall be deemed to be a resident only of the State with which his personal and economic relations are closer (centre of vital interests);

b) If the State in which he has his centre of vital interests cannot be determined, or if he has not a permanent home available to him in either State, he shall be deemed to be a resident only of the State in which is has an habitual abode;

c) If he has an habitual abode in both States or in neither of them, he shall be deemed to be a resident only of the State of which he is a national;

d) If he is a national of both States or of neither of them, the competent authorities of the Contracting States shall settle the question by mutual agreement.

3 — Where by reason of the provisions of paragraph 1 a person other than an individual is a resident of both Contracting States, then it shall be deemed to be a resident only of the State in which its place of effective

management is situated. If the State in which its place

of effective management is situated can not be determined, then the competent authorities of the Contracting States shall settle the question by mutual agreement.

Article 5 Permanent establishment

1 — For the purposes of this Convention, the term «permanent establishment» means a fixed place of business through which the business of an enterprise is wholly or partly carried on.

2 — The term «permanent establishment» includes especially:

a) A place of management;

b) A branch;

c) An office;

d) A factory;

e) A workshop;

f) A sales outlet; and

g) A mine, an oil or gas well, a quarry or any other place of extraction of natural resources, including an installation or structure used for the exploration or exploitation of natural resources only if so used for a period of more than 120 days in a fiscal year.

3 — A building site, construction, installation or assembly project or supervisory activities in connection therewith constitutes a permanent establishment only if it lasts more than nine months.

4 — Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this article, the term «permanent establishment» shall be deemed not to include:

a) The use of facilities solely for the purpose of storage, display or delivery of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise;

b) The maintenance of a stock of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise solely for the purpose of storage, display or delivery;

c) The maintenance of a stock of goods or merchandise belonging to the enterprise solely for the purpose of processing by another enterprise;

d) The maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for the purpose of purchasing goods or merchandise or of collecting information, for the enterprise;

e) The maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for the purpose of carrying on, for the enterprise, any other activity of a preparatory or auxiliary character;

f) The maintenance of a fixed place of business solely for any combination of activities mentioned in subparagraphs a) to e), provider! that the overall activity of the fixed place of business resulting from this combination is of a preparatory or auxiliary character.

5 — Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2, where a person — other than an agent of an independent status to whom paragraph 6 applies— is acting in a Contracting State on behalf of an enterprise