Article 3 - General Definitions - Kenya

ARTICLE 3 GENERAL DEFINITIONS 1. For the purposes of this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) the term India means the territory of India and includes the territorial sea and air space above it as well as any other maritime zone in which India has sovereign rights, other rights and jurisdiction, according to the Indian law and in accordance with international law, including the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea; (b) the term Kenya means all territory of Kenya in state boundaries, including internal and territorial waters and also Special Economic Zone and Continental Shelf, and all installations erected thereon as defined in the Continental shelf Act over which Kenya exercises its sovereign rights for the purpose of exploiting natural resources of the sea bed, its subsoil and superjacent waters, in accordance with the international law; (c) the terms Contracting State and the other Contracting State mean India or Kenya as the context requires; (d) the term person includes an individual, a company, a body of persons and any other entity which is treated as a taxable unit under the taxation laws in force in the respective Contracting States; (e) the term company means anybody corporate or any entity which 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 that 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 competent authority means: (i) in the case of India, the Finance Minister, Government of India, or his authorized representative; (ii) in the case of Kenya, the Cabinet Secretary responsible for Finance or his authorized representative; (i) 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; (j) the term tax means Indian or Kenyan tax, as the context requires, but shall not include any amount which is payable in respect of any default or omission in relation to the taxes to which this Agreement applies or which represents a penalty or fine imposed relating to those taxes; (k) The term fiscal year means: (i) in the case of India: the financial year beginning on the 1st day of April; (ii) in the case of Kenya: the year of income beginning on the 1st day of January. 2. As regards the application of the 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 State for the purposes of the taxes to which the Agreement applies and any meaning under the applicable tax laws of that State prevailing over a meaning given to the term under other laws of that State.