217. This Part shall apply to:(1) Every association constituted as a legal person under it;
(2) Every association constituted as a legal person under Part III of The Québec Companies Act, 1920, or of chapter 223 of the Revised Statutes, 1925, or of chapter 276 of the Revised Statutes, 1941, or of chapter 271 of the Revised Statutes, 1964;
(3) Every legal person existing under any special or general act, which has obtained letters patent under the provisions of section 6088 of the Revised Statutes, 1909, as contained in The Québec Companies Act, 1920, of section 201 of chapter 223 of the Revised Statutes, 1925, or of section 217 of chapter 276 of the Revised Statutes, 1941, or of section 217 of chapter 271 of the Revised Statutes, 1964;
(4) Every legal person existing under any special or general act, which obtains letters patent under the provisions of section 221.
(5) Moreover, it shall govern, with the necessary modifications, the organization of historical societies, that is to say, societies whose object is the making of historical research or gathering and conserving material, for history in general or for a particular history.
(6) The historical societies constituted as legal persons before the 7th of March, 1934 are, since such date, governed by the provisions of this part and by those provisions of this act to which this part refers.