16.4. Each of the persons who met the requirements under this Act to qualify the agricultural operations corporation, the agricultural operations partnership, the agricultural operations cooperative or the group of persons contemplated in sections 14 and 15 of which they were members for a grant at the time a grant was made under any of sections 16.1, 16.2 and 16.3, even if that number exceeds four, is, for the purposes of paragraph 3 of the first paragraph of section 5.1, deemed to have caused that corporation, partnership, cooperative or group to be the recipient of the grant, if the grant or part thereof has been paid.