244.1. An insurer other than a mutual insurance association may not acquire directly or through a partnership or legal person it controls more than 30% of the assets or the voting rights attached to the shares of a legal person, or more than 30% of the assets or the voting rights attached to the shares of a cooperative or other similar legal person whose head office is situated outside Québec. The voting rights may not enable the insurer to elect more than one-third of the directors of the legal person.
A mutual insurance association may not acquire directly or through a partnership or legal person it controls, alone or jointly with a legal person of its group, more than 30% of the assets or the voting rights attached to the shares of a legal person, or more than 30% of the assets or the voting rights attached to the shares of a cooperative or other similar legal person whose head office is situated outside Québec. The voting rights attached to the shares may not enable the association to elect more than one-third of the directors of the legal person.