177. Subject to sections 178 and 180 to 183, the licensee shall perform each year, in the territory subject to his licence, work of the nature and for the minimum cost determined by regulation.
The required work shall be reduced to one-third where the licensee is, with respect to the same territory, a licensee under another licence issued pursuant to this division for which no work reduction has ever been granted.
The licensee shall report the work to the Minister within six months after the end of the year in which the work was performed; the report shall be in the form and accompanied with the documents prescribed by regulation.