5.2. A commercial establishment operating with more than three persons that sells products referred to in paragraph 7 of section 5 as well as food products and sundries on the date of assent to this Act is not required to reduce its personnel to three persons or to partition the section where food products are sold if it receives the authorization of the Minister and provided that the total amount of space set aside for the sale of food products in the commercial establishment is not increased.
Request for authorization under this section must be made to the Minister before 1 September 1984.
The Minister’s authorization shall be published in the Gazette officielle du Québec.