5. The board of directors of the Ordre professionnel des techniciens et techniciennes dentaires du Québec shall issue a permit to a person directing the activities of a laboratory equipped to manufacture or repair dental prostheses on 11 November 1999 who furnishes the security prescribed in paragraph 2 of section 3 and who(1) made an application in writing to the secretary of the Order not later than 10 October 2000; or
(2) has been directing the activities of such a laboratory without interruption since 11 November 1999 and makes an application in writing to the secretary of the Order not later than 20 September 2003.