726.4.17.7. In this Title, a qualified corporation is a corporation all of 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 e of section 395 or at the time the expenses in respect of which an amount is renounced under section 359.2, as the case may be, are incurred, and throughout the twelve-month period preceding that time, fulfils the following conditions:(a) the corporation does not operate any mineral resource or oil or gas well;
(b) the corporation is not 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.