86.2. Only legal persons and bodies that do not hold a wood processing plant operating permit and are not related within the meaning of the Taxation Act (chapter I-3) to the holder of such a permit are eligible to obtain a permit to harvest timber to supply a wood processing plant. The conditions set out in the first paragraph do not apply where the permit requested is solely for the harvest of forest biomass.
For the purposes of the second paragraph, forest biomass consists of unmerchantable ligneous matter resulting from forest development activities or from short rotation plantations for energy production, excluding stumps and roots.