965.10.2. For the purposes of section 965.10, where a corporation results from an amalgamation within the meaning of section 544 and a period of at least 12 months has not elapsed between the time of the amalgamation and the date of the receipt for the final prospectus or of the exemption from filing a prospectus, the requirement in paragraph e of section 965.10 shall be replaced by the requirement that that corporation have, throughout the period from the time of the amalgamation to the date of the receipt for the final prospectus or of the exemption from filing a prospectus, not fewer than five full-time employees who are not insiders within the meaning of section 89 of the Securities Act (chapter V-1.1) or persons related to such insiders and for one of the predecessor corporations to have had not fewer than five full-time employees who are not insiders within the meaning of section 89 of that Act or persons related to such insiders (a) throughout a 12-month period that includes the time of the amalgamation and that is established as if the period from the time of the amalgamation to the date of the receipt for the final prospectus or of the exemption from filing a prospectus were applicable to the predecessor corporation and not to the corporation resulting from the amalgamation; or
(b) throughout a 6-month period that includes the time of the amalgamation and that is established as if the period from the time of the amalgamation to the date of the receipt for the final prospectus or of the exemption from filing a prospectus were applicable to the predecessor corporation and not to the corporation resulting from the amalgamation, wherei. it has already made a public issue of shares with the stipulation that they could be included in a stock savings plan,
ii. a class of shares of its capital stock is listed on a Canadian stock exchange immediately before the time of the amalgamation, and
iii. a class of shares of the capital stock of the corporation resulting from the amalgamation is listed on a Canadian stock exchange on the date of the receipt for the final prospectus or of the exemption from filing a prospectus.
For the purposes of subparagraph a of the first paragraph, a predecessor corporation is deemed to have had not fewer than five full-time employees who are not insiders within the meaning of section 89 of the Securities Act or persons related to such insiders, where (a) a class of shares of its capital stock is, throughout the 12-month period preceding the time of the amalgamation, listed on a Canadian stock exchange; and
(b) a person, other than such an insider or a person related thereto, or a partnership provides the predecessor corporation, in the period referred to in subparagraph a, with services under a service contract and that predecessor corporation would normally require the services of more than five full-time employees if those services were not provided.