17. The total of the amounts borrowed by a union must not, at any time, except with the authorization of the Régie de l’assurance-dépôts du Québec, exceed ten per cent of the amount represented by the savings of the members, the paid-up and unimpaired capital and the general reserve contemplated in section 13.
For the purposes of this section, the savings deposited in a union by its members and the borrowings fully secured by the pledge of securities or made for transitional requirements of liquid assets from the federation are not regarded as sums borrowed.
1974, c. 68, s. 17; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1978, c. 85, s. 30.