72. The civil status fund established under section 17 continues, from the date on which it begins its operations, that part of the register fund of the Ministère de la Justice to which subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph of section 32.1 of the Act respecting the Ministère de la Justice (chapter M-19) applies.
The Government may fix the date for the beginning of the activities of the civil status fund, which shall not be earlier than 1 April 1996.