40. Every annual or additional grant shall be due and payable to each club so soon as the report, statement of accounts and plan of operations thereof have received the approval of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and so soon as the president and secretary-treasurer or any other officer of the club has sent to the Minister an affidavit, as in form 3, sworn to before a justice of the peace, giving the names of the members then belonging to the club, whose subscriptions for the current year have been paid to and are in the hands of the treasurer.
Such affidavit shall be sent by registered or certified letter to the Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation, on or before the 1st of September in each year; if it be not sent at such date or within the thirty days following, the grant for that year may be suppressed; but the secretary of the Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation shall give notice, on the 1st of July in each year, to all clubs, by a registered or certified letter addressed to the secretary-treasurer of each such club, that its grant for the year will not be allowed if the affidavit required by this section has not been sent by registered or certified letter to the said department, as by law required.
R. S. 1964, c. 113, s. 40; 1973, c. 22, s. 22; 1975, c. 83, s. 84; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1979, c. 77, s. 21.