4. The Government may, by letters patent under the great seal, grant, after having obtained the opinion of the Inspector General of Financial Institutions, a charter to any number of persons not less than nine who apply therefor by petition in order to obtain the powers or some of the powers mentioned in paragraph 7 of section 2.
R. S. 1964, c. 287, s. 4; 1982, c. 52, s. 142.