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If a recipient of a supply of tangible personal property by way of lease, licence or similar arrangement exercises an option to purchase the property provided for under the arrangement and the supply by way of sale of the property is made in a participating province, and retail sales tax in respect of the sale became payable before the implementation date for the province or would have become payable if the property or the recipient, as the case may be, were not exempt from that tax, no tax under subsection 165(2) is payable in respect of the sale.