(1) with respect to an application for registration that is admissible within the meaning of section 12 received by the Board within 45 days of the date of advance registration, the earlier of the following 2 dates:(a) the fifteenth day preceding the date of advance registration, for a person referred to in section 5.0.1 of the Act who arrived in Québec on or before that date or for a person referred to in section 5 of the Act who settled in Québec on or before that date; or
(b) for a person referred to in section 5.0.1 of the Act, the date of arrival in Québec or, for a person referred to in section 5 of the Act, the date of settlement in Québec, as the case may be, if advance registration with the Board occurs on or within 15 days of that date; and