3. For the purposes of this Act,(1) “former municipality” means a local municipality that ceased to exist upon the constitution of the city;
(2) “Minister”, except in a minister’s title, means the Minister of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy;
(3) “reconstituted municipality”, with respect to a city, means a local municipality constituted to give effect to the results of a referendum poll held under the Act respecting the consultation of citizens with respect to the territorial reorganization of certain municipalities (2003, chapter 14), whose territory corresponds to the territory of a former municipality;
(4) “body”, in a provision specifying that it is a body of a local municipality, means a mandatary body of the municipality within the meaning of section 18 of the Act respecting the Pension Plan of Elected Municipal Officers (chapter R‐9.3), any other body otherwise under the authority of the municipality, or a supramunicipal body, within the meaning of that section, whose territory includes the territory of the municipality; (5) “reorganization”, with respect to a city, means all the acts provided for in an Act or statutory instrument to constitute the reconstituted municipality or municipalities whose territory is included in the territory of the city, and to reduce the territory of the city accordingly.