37. If, at the end of the period contemplated in section 35, the total amount distributed to the municipalities for such period is less than the total compensation provided for in section 32, the difference shall be apportioned after the end of the last fiscal year among all the municipalities in proportion to their population.
For the purposes of such apportionment, the population of each municipality shall be determined by adding the figure of its population shown in the last enumeration recognized under section 42 to twice the figure of its population shown in the census made in 1961 by the Government of Canada and dividing by three the total so obtained.
The amount to be so apportioned shall be paid during the fiscal year 1968/69.
The municipalities established in an unorganized territory between the 1st of June 1961 and the 1st of April 1967 shall be entitled to receive, during that same fiscal year, one-third of the amount that would then be paid to them if they participated in such apportionment in the same way as the other municipalities; their share shall be determined according to their population shown in the last enumeration recognized under section 42.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 27, s. 3; 1968, c. 31, s. 7.