587. In any Act, or statutory instrument, or in any contract or other document, unless the context indicates otherwise(1) a reference to the Savings and Credit Unions Act (chapter C-4) or to any of its provisions is a reference to this Act or to the corresponding provision of this Act;
(2) the expression “federation within the meaning of the Savings and Credit Unions Act” means “a federation and a confederation” within the meaning of this Act;
(3) the expression “bodies governed by the Savings and Credit Unions Act” means “a credit union, a federation and a confederation” governed by this Act;
(4) the expression “legal person who is not governed by the Savings and Credit Unions Act” includes a holding company referred to in section 469 and a legal person referred to in the first paragraph of section 469.1.
However, a reference to the Savings and Credit Unions Act or to any of its provisions in the Act respecting the caisses d’entraide économique (chapter C-3), the Act respecting certain caisses d’entraide économique (chapter C-3.1), the Act respecting the sociétés d’entraide économique (chapter S-25.1), the Cooperative Syndicates Act (chapter S-38) and Division III of the Act respecting La Confédération des caisses populaires et d’économie Desjardins du Québec (1971, chapter 80) remains a reference to the Savings and Credit Unions Act (chapter C-4) or to one of its provisions.
1988, c. 64, s. 587; 1994, c. 38, s. 24.