965.121. A qualified mutual fund that makes, in a particular year, a public security issue consisting of securities that may be included in a stock savings plan II and is making its first such public security issue may, instead of stipulating in the final prospectus relating to their issue that it undertakes to meet the requirements set out in section 965.119, elect to stipulate in the final prospectus that it undertakes to meet the following requirements or may, once it has stipulated that it undertakes to meet the requirements set out in section 965.119, elect instead to undertake to meet the following requirements by sending to the Minister and to the Autorité des marchés financiers a written notice to that effect on or before 31 December in the year in which the receipt for the final prospectus relating to their issue was obtained:(a) to use a determined percentage, which must be the same throughout any particular year during which securities are issued as part of the security issue, not lower than 50%, of the proceeds, for the particular year, of the issue of securities not redeemed by the qualified mutual fund on or before 31 December in the particular year, to acquire, on or before 31 December in the year following the particular year, qualifying shares that are issued by qualified issuing corporations;
(b) to cause the proportion, expressed as a percentage, that the adjusted cost is of the cost, determined without reference to the borrowing costs, brokerage or custody fees or other similar costs, to the qualified mutual fund, of the aggregate of all qualifying shares described in paragraph a that the qualified mutual fund has undertaken to acquire in accordance with that paragraph a on or before 31 December in the year following the particular year, to be equal to or greater than the determined percentage, not lower than 50%, stated in that respect by the qualified mutual fund, in respect of the public security issue, in the final prospectus relating to their issue or in the written notice to be sent by the qualified mutual fund to the Minister and to the Autorité des marchés financiers, as the case may be;
(c) to acquire, on or before 31 December in the particular year, qualifying shares with the proceeds, for the particular year, of the public security issue, that are not the subject of the undertaking under paragraph a and are not qualifying shares having already been used, in respect of the particular year, for the purposes of paragraph d, and whose adjusted cost is not less than the amount by which the adjusted cost of the aggregate of all qualifying securities issued by the qualified mutual fund in the particular year and constituting valid qualifying securities exceeds the particular amount equal to the lesser of the proceeds of the issue of securities constituting, for the particular year, valid qualifying securities and the amount obtained by applying to the portion, that is the subject of the undertaking under paragraph a, of the proceeds, for the particular year, of the public security issue, the percentage determined under paragraph b in respect of the public security issue;
(d) to acquire, on or before 31 December in the year following the particular year, qualifying shares described in paragraph a with the proceeds, for the particular year, of the public security issue, other than any such qualifying shares having already been used, in respect of the particular year, for the purposes of paragraph c, and whose adjusted cost is equal to or greater than the particular amount referred to in paragraph c in respect of the particular year;
(e) to be the owner, on 31 December in the particular year and in each of the following two years, of shares that are qualifying shares or valid shares, other than qualifying shares or valid shares having already been used, in respect of the same year, for the purposes of paragraph f or of this paragraph, and whose adjusted cost is equal to or greater than the amount by which the adjusted cost of the aggregate of all qualifying securities issued by the qualified mutual fund in the particular year and not redeemed by the qualified mutual fund on 31 December in the particular year and on 31 December in each of the two years following the particular year, respectively, as the case may be, exceeds the particular amount referred to in paragraph c in respect of the particular year;
(f) to be the owner, on 31 December in each of the three years following the particular year, of shares that are qualifying shares or valid shares, other than qualifying shares or valid shares having already been used, in respect of the same year, for the purposes of this paragraph, and whose adjusted cost is equal to or greater than the particular amount referred to in paragraph c in respect of the particular year; and
(g) to ensure, in relation to a qualifying share acquired by the qualified mutual fund, that no coverage deficiency amount may be computed in respect of an individual who has acquired a qualifying security as part of a public security issue.