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GENERAL DEFINITIONS 1. For the purposes of this Convention, unless the context otherwise requires: a) the term "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" means the territory of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which also includes the area outside the territorial waters, where the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia exercises its sovereign and jurisdictional rights in their waters, sea bed, sub-soil and natural resources by virtue of its law and international law; b) the term “Ukraine“ when used in geographical sense, means the territory of Ukraine, its continental shelf and its exclusive (maritime) economic zone, including any area outside the territorial sea of Ukraine which in accordance with international law has been or may hereafter be designated, as an area within which the rights of Ukraine with respect to the sea bed and sub-soil and their natural resources may be exercised; c) the terms “a Contracting State“ and “the other Contracting State“ mean the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or Ukraine, as the context requires; d) 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; e) the term "person" includes an individual, a company and any other body of persons, including the State, its administrative sub-division or local authorities; f) the term “company” means any juridical person or any entity which is treated as a juridical person for tax purposes; g) the term “international traffic” means any transport by a ship or aircraft operated by an enterprise which has its place of effective management in a Contracting State, except when the ship or aircraft is operated solely between places in the other Contracting State; h) 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; i) the term "competent authority" means: (i) in the case of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Finance represented by the Minister of Finance or his authorized representative, and, (ii) in the case of Ukraine, the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine or its authorized 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.