Singapore (tax/treaty)

General Definitions 1. For the purposes of this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires: a. the term "Kingdom of Saudi Arabia" means the territory of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and 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 "Singapore" means the Republic of Singapore and when used in a geographical sense, the term "Singapore" includes the territorial waters of Singapore and any area extending beyond the limits of the territorial waters of Singapore, and the sea-bed and subsoil of any such area, which has been or may hereafter be designated under the laws of Singapore and in accordance with international law as an area over which Singapore has sovereign rights for the purposes of exploring and exploiting the natural resources, whether living or non-living; c. the terms "a Contracting State " and " the other Contracting State" mean the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia or Singapore as the context requires; d. the term "person" includes an individual, a company or any other body of persons; e. the term "company" means any body corporate or any entity that is treated as a body corporate for tax purposes; 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 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 authorised representative; ii. in the case of Singapore, the Minister for Finance or his authorised representative. 2. As regards the application of this Agreement 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 Contracting State for the purposes of the taxes to which this Agreement applies, any meaning under the applicable tax laws of that Contracting State prevailing over a meaning given to the term under other laws of that Contracting State.