18. For the purposes of this Act, “enterprise” means a partnership or a legal person pursuing economic objects; “investment” includes any financial assistance granted to an enterprise in the form of a loan, a guarantee, security, an acquisition of bonds or other titles of indebtedness or an interest in share capital or capital stock, or in any other form
Except for the purposes of subparagraph 8 of the fifth paragraph of section 19, an investment in an entity that is not an enterprise within the meaning of the first paragraph and that is either a partnership (other than a partnership that is an investment fund) or a legal person is deemed to be an investment in a particular enterprise, if the investment was made with a view to investing in the particular enterprise.
1995, c. 48, s. 18; 1999, c. 55, s. 4; 2017, c. 1, s. 45.