726.4.14. In this Title, a qualified partnership is a partnership all the activities of which consist mainly in exploring for minerals, petroleum or gas or developing a mineral resource or an oil or gas well and which, at the time the expenses referred to in paragraph d of section 395 are incurred and throughout the twelve-month period preceding that time, fulfils the following conditions:(a) neither the partnership nor any of its members operates a mineral resource or an oil or gas well;
(b) none of its members is a member of an associated group, within the meaning of section 726.4.17.18.1, a member of which operates a mineral resource or an oil or gas well.