15. Joint operators may jointly benefit by the grants provided for in sections 2 and 5 on the same conditions as a farmer, provided one of them is a farmer at least eighteen and not more than forty years of age and owns not less than twenty per cent of the aggregate of the interests in the economic farm composed of the aggregate of the farms of which the joint operators are the owners or lessees.
1972, c. 34, s. 5; 1975, c. 38, s. 11.