(1) For the purposes of this section -

"accountable person" includes a person who is not a registered person and is in doubt as to whether he or she is an accountable person in respect of a transaction and, in that case, references to a return and records are to be construed as referring to a return that would be due under Chapter 3 and records that would be kept for the purposes of Chapter 7 or section 124(7), if that person were in fact an accountable person;

"the law" has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (2);