Despite subsection 8.1(2), the votes attached to securities acquired under a bid may be included as votes in favour of a subsequent business combination in determining whether minority approval has been obtained if
(a) the security holder that tendered the securities to the bid was not a joint actor with the offeror in respect of the bid,
(b) the security holder that tendered the securities to the bid was not
(i) a direct or indirect party to any connected transaction to the bid, or
(ii) entitled to receive, directly or indirectly, in connection with the bid
(A) consideration per offeree security that was not identical in amount and form to the entitlement of the general body of holders in Canada of securities of the same class,
(B) a collateral benefit, or
(C) consideration for securities of a class of equity securities of the issuer if the issuer had more than one outstanding class of equity securities, unless that consideration was not greater than the entitlement of the general body of holders in Canada of every other class of equity securities of the issuer in relation to the voting and financial participating interests in the issuer represented by the respective securities,
(c) the business combination is being effected by the offeror that made the bid, or an affiliated entity of that offeror, and is in respect of the securities of the same class for which the bid was made and that were not acquired in the bid,
(d) the business combination is completed no later than 120 days after the date of expiry of the bid,
(e) the consideration per security that the holders of affected securities would be entitled to receive in the business combination is at least equal in value to and is in the same form as the consideration that the tendering security holders were entitled to receive in the bid, and
(f) the disclosure document for the bid
(i) disclosed that if the offeror acquired securities under the bid, the offeror intended to acquire the remainder of the securities under a statutory right of acquisition or under a business combination that would satisfy the conditions in paragraphs (d) and (e),
(ii) contained a summary of a formal valuation of the securities in accordance with the applicable provisions of Part 6, or contained the valuation in its entirety, if the offeror in the bid was subject to and not exempt from the requirement to obtain a formal valuation,
(iii) stated that the business combination would be subject to minority approval,
(iv) disclosed the number of votes attached to the securities that, to the knowledge of the issuer after reasonable inquiry, would be required to be excluded in determining whether minority approval for the business combination had been obtained,
(v) identified the holders of securities specified in subparagraph (iv) and set out their individual holdings,
(vi) identified each class of securities the holders of which would be entitled to vote separately as a class on the business combination,
(vii) described the expected tax consequences of both the bid and the business combination if, at the time the bid was made, the tax consequences arising from the business combination
(A) were reasonably foreseeable to the offeror, and
(B) were reasonably expected to be different from the tax consequences of tendering to the bid, and
(viii) disclosed that the tax consequences of the bid and the business combination may be different if, at the time the bid was made, the offeror could not reasonably foresee the tax consequences arising from the business combination.