2. The enterprise registrar may grant letters patent under his hand and seal to any number of persons, not less than three, who apply for the constitution of a private corporation whose objects are to organize, administer and maintain a church, congregation or work of which they are members and whose purposes are charity, teaching, education, religion or welfare.
1971, c. 75, s. 2; 1982, c. 52, s. 189; 2002, c. 45, s. 339.