15. At any time after the erection of the municipality, the Government may, at the request of any interested party, issue supplementary letters patent(a) annexing to the territory of the municipality a contiguous part of the Territory not forming part of the territory of another municipality, subtracting a part of the territory of the municipality or correcting a mistake in the description thereof;
(b) changing the place of the first general sitting of the council or
(c) making, revising or removing the enumeration of provisions contemplated in paragraph e of subsection 1 of section 14.
The second paragraph of section 13 and subsection 2 of section 14 shall apply with the necessary modifications to the case contemplated in this section.
In any part of the Territory newly comprised within the territory of a municipality following an annexation under subparagraph a of the first paragraph, the by-laws of the Regional Government that governed that part of the Territory prior to the annexation shall continue to apply until repealed or amended by the council of the municipality; the by-laws, resolutions, ordinances and other municipal enactments that governed the territory of the municipality prior to the annexation shall apply to the part of the Territory newly comprised only after having been declared applicable to it.
1978, c. 87, s. 15; 1996, c. 2, s. 1027.