45. At the expiration of such time, the Government or, as the case may be, the Minister of Municipal Affairs, if it or he approves of it, orders the erection, division, annexation, or alteration applied for, by a proclamation published in the Gazette officielle du Québec.
The proclamation ordering erection, division or alteration comes into force on 1 January immediately following its publication.
The proclamation ordering annexation comes into force on the day it is published or on any later date fixed therein. It may state the conditions of the annexation, which have effect notwithstanding any inconsistent legislative provision governing the municipal corporations or territories contemplated.
M.C. 1916, a. 42; 1941, c. 69, s. 3; 1977, c. 53, s. 7; 1982, c. 63, s. 3.