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poration that has been a member of the partnership continuously since March 21, 2011; and (f) subsection (10) applies to the single-tier alignment election. Multi-tier fiscal period alignment — one-time election (9) The members of a partnership to which paragraph (1)(c) would apply if it were read without reference to this subsection may elect (in this subsection and subsections (10) and (11) referred to as a “multi-tier alignment election”) to end a fiscal period of the partnership on a particular day if (a) as a consequence of the multi-tier alignment election, the fiscal period of the partnership, and of each other partnership described in relation to the partnership by any of subparagraphs (1)(c)(ii) to (iv), ends on the particular day; (b) the particular day is before March 22, 2012; and (c) subsection (10) applies to the multi-tier alignment election. When subsection (9) ceases to apply (9.1) If paragraph (1)(c) did not apply to end the fiscal period of a partnership on December 31 of a calendar year (in this subsection referred to as the “preceding year”) because subsection (9) applies to the partnership, and to each other partnership described in relation to the partnership by any of subparagraphs (1)(c)(ii) to (iv), (in this subsection referred to collectively as the “aligned multi-tier partnerships” and each individually as an “aligned multi-tier partnership”), (a) subsection (9) ceases to apply — for the purpose of applying paragraph (1)(c) to each of the aligned multi-tier partnerships — in the calendar year following the preceding year (in this subsection referred to as the “current year”) if another partnership (in this subsection referred to as the “new partnership”) becomes in the current year a member of any of the aligned multi-tier partnerships, or any of the aligned multi-tier partnerships becomes in the current year a member of the new partnership, unless (i) the fiscal period of the new partnership, and each other partnership described in relation to the new partnership by any of subparagraphs (1)(c)(ii) to (iv), ends in the current year on the same day as the fiscal period of each of the aligned multi-tier partnerships, and (ii) each member (other than a partnership) of each aligned multi-tier partnership — or a subsidiary wholly-owned corporation of such a member — has been a member of the aligned multi-tier partnership from the end of the last fiscal period ending in the preceding year until the time at which the new partnership becomes a member of an aligned multi-tier partnership, or any of the aligned multi-tier partnerships becomes a member of the new partnership, as the case may be; and (b) if paragraph (a) does not apply because the conditions in subparagraphs (a)(i) and (ii) are met, the new partnership is deemed — for the purpose of applying paragraph (1)(c) to each of the aligned multi-tier partnerships and the new partnership in the current year and subsequent years — to have made the multi-tier alignment election referred to in subsection (9). Conditions to align a partnership fiscal period (10) This subsection applies to a single-tier alignment election or a multi-tier alignment election, as the case may be, for a partnership if (a) the election is filed in writing and in prescribed form with the Minister (i) in the case of a single-tier alignment election, by a corporation that is a member of the partnership on or before the day that is the earliest filing-due date of any corporation that is a member of the partnership for its first taxation year ending after March 22, 2011, and (ii) in the case of a multi-tier alignment election, (A) by a corporation that is a member of the partnership, or of a partnership described in relation to the partnership by any of subparagraphs (1)(c)(ii) to (iv), and (B) on or before the day that is the earliest filing-due date of any corporation that is a member of a partnership referred to in clause (A) for the first taxation year of the corporation ending aft