1. In this Act, unless a different meaning is required by the context,(a) “credit union” means any savings and credit union and any similar credit society, any federation or confederation of such unions or societies and any group of such federations or confederations;
(b) “new dwelling” means a dwelling house of one or two dwellings entirely built between 15 January 1948 and 30 June 1974, and a fraction of an immovable held in co-ownership established by declaration, and entirely built between these dates;
(c) “dwelling” means, subject to the third paragraph of section 13, a family dwelling of at least five rooms, a fraction of an immovable held in co-ownership established by declaration and comprising at least four rooms, and a fraction of such an immovable belonging to an aged person within the meaning of the regulations and comprising the minimum number of rooms determined by regulation;
(d) “Corporation” means the Société d’habitation du Québec;
(e) “loan society” or “society” means a corporation or a company authorized to do business as trust, insurance, loan, building or finance companies having its head office or a place of business in Québec and authorized by the Government to make building loans for the purposes of this Act.