43. In the case of amalgamation or total annexation of municipalities, the population of the new or subsisting municipality shall be that of the whole and the amount received during a previous fiscal year shall be the total received by the whole.
In the case of partial annexation, the amount of the compensation payable to each municipality affected by the annexation shall be adjusted from the date of the coming into force of the annexation, taking into account the population of the territory annexed, determined in accordance with section 42.
1965 (1st sess.), c. 27, s. 3; 1969, c. 32, s. 4.