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erty”) of a class in Schedule II (in this subsection referred to as the “present class”) and the present class is neither (i) the former class, nor (ii) a separate class described in section 1101, other than subsection 1101(5d), such that (c) if the former property had been acquired at the time that the new property was acquired and from the person from whom the new property was acquired, the former property would have been included in the present class, and (d) if the new property had been acquired at the time that the former property was acquired and from the person from whom the former property was acquired, the new property would have been included in the former class, the taxpayer may, by letter attached to the return of income of the taxpayer filed with the Minister in accordance with section 150 of the Act in respect of the taxation year in which the former property was disposed of, elect to transfer the former property from the former class to the present class in the year of its disposition and, for greater certainty, the transfer shall be considered to have been made before the disposition of the property. Transfers from Class 40 to Class 10 (2e) For the purposes of this Part and Schedule II, where property of a taxpayer would otherwise be included in Class 40 in Schedule II, all such properties owned by the taxpayer shall be transferred from Class 40 to Class 10 immediately after the commencement of the first taxation year of the taxpayer commencing after 1989. Elections to Include Properties in Class 1, 3 or 6 (2f) In respect of properties otherwise included in Class 20 in Schedule II, a taxpayer may, by letter attached to the return of income of the taxpayer for a taxation year filed with the Minister in accordance with section 150 of the Act, elect to include in Class 1, 3 or 6 in Schedule II, as specified in the letter, all properties of Class 20 in Schedule II owned by the taxpayer at the commencement of the year. Transfers to Class 8, Class 10 or Class 43 [NOTE: Application provisions are not included in the consolidated text; see relevant amending Acts and regulations.] SOR/2005-371, s. 3 (2g) For the purposes of this Part and Schedule II, where one or more properties of a taxpayer are included in a separate class pursuant to an election filed by the taxpayer in accordance with subsection 1101(5q), all the properties in that class immediately after the beginning of the taxpayer’s fifth taxation year beginning after the end of the first taxation year in which a property of the class became available for use by the taxpayer for the purposes of subsection 13(26) of the Act shall be transferred immediately after the beginning of that fifth taxation year from the separate class to the class in which the property would, but for the election, have been included. Elections Not to Include Properties in Class 44 (2h) A taxpayer may, by letter attached to the taxpayer’s return of income filed with the Minister in accordance with section 150 of the Act for the taxation year in which a property was acquired, elect not to include the property in Class 44 in Schedule II. Election to Include Properties in Class 35 (2i) In respect of any property otherwise included in Class 7 in Schedule II because of paragraph (h) of that Class and to which paragraph 1100(1)(z.1a) and subsection 1101(5d), or paragraph 1100(1)(z.1c) and subsection 1101(5d.2), would apply if Class 35 of that Schedule applied to the property, the taxpayer may (by letter attached to the taxpayer’s return of income filed with the Minister in accordance with section 150 of the Act for the taxation year in which the property was acquired) elect to include the property in Class 35 rather than in Class 7. (2j) A taxpayer may, in its return of income filed with the Minister on or before its filing-due date for the taxation year in which a property is acquired, elect not to include the property in any of Classes 54 to 56 in Schedule II, as the case may be. Election Rul