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er section 230.1 to be paid by the registrant, that is reasonably attributable to an amount required under subsection 231(3) to be added to the net tax of the registrant in respect of a bad debt referred to in subparagraph (v); and (c) the threshold amounts of the registrant and of the person under subsections 249(1) and (2) shall be determined as if any consideration that became due to the person, or was paid to the person without having become due, in respect of the supply had become due to the registrant, or had been paid to the registrant without having become due, as the case may be, and not to the person. Billing agent (1.11) If a registrant acts as agent of a supplier in charging and collecting consideration and tax payable in respect of a supply made by the supplier but the registrant does not act as agent in making the supply, the registrant is deemed to have acted as agent of the supplier in making the supply for the purposes of (a) subsection (1.1); and (b) if an election under subsection (1.1) is made in respect of the supply, any other provision that refers to a supply in respect of which an election under that subsection has been made. Joint revocation (1.12) A registrant and a supplier who have jointly made an election under subsection (1.1) may, in prescribed form containing prescribed information, jointly revoke the election with respect to any supply made on or after the effective date specified in the revocation, and the election is thereby deemed, for the purposes of this Part, not to have been made with respect to that supply. Supply by auctioneer (1.2) Where a registrant (in this subsection referred to as the “auctioneer”), acting as auctioneer and agent for another person (in this subsection referred to as the “principal”) in the course of a commercial activity of the auctioneer, makes on behalf of the principal a supply by auction of tangible personal property to a recipient, the supply is deemed, for the purposes of this Part, to be a taxable supply made by the auctioneer and not by the principal and the auctioneer is deemed, for the purposes of this Part other than section 180, not to have made a supply to the principal of services relating to the supply of the property to the recipient. Exception where election (1.3) Where (a) a registrant (in this subsection referred to as the “auctioneer”), on a particular day, makes a particular supply by auction of prescribed property on behalf of another registrant (in this subsection referred to as the “principal”) and, but for subsection (1.2), that supply would be a taxable supply made by the principal, (b) the auctioneer and principal jointly elect in prescribed form containing prescribed information in respect of the particular supply, and (c) all or substantially all of the consideration for supplies made by auction on the particular day by the auctioneer on behalf of the principal is attributable to supplies of prescribed property in respect of which the auctioneer and principal have elected under this subsection, subsection (1.2) does not apply to the particular supply or to any supply made by the auctioneer to the principal of services relating to the particular supply. (1.4) [Repealed, 1997, c. 10, s. 26] Supply for artists, etc. (2) For the purposes of this Part other than sections 148 and 249, where a prescribed registrant, acting in the course of a commercial activity, makes a supply on behalf of another person of intangible personal property in respect of a product of an author, performing artist, painter, sculptor or other artist, the following rules apply: (a) the other person shall be deemed not to have made the supply to the recipient; (b) the registrant shall be deemed to have made the supply to the recipient; and (c) the registrant shall be deemed not to have made a supply to the other person of a service in relation to the supply to the recipient. [NOTE: Application provisions are not included in the consolidated text; see relevant amending