23. For the purposes of grants to be made under section 2, 5 or 7 to an agricultural operations corporation, an agricultural operations cooperative, an agricultural operations partnership or to a group of persons contemplated in section 14, 15 or 17, two legitimate spouses not judicially separated from bed and board and two common law spouses living together shall qualify such corporation, cooperative, partnership, or group of which they are members, together, as shareholders, partners, members, undivided owners or joint operators, as the case may be, to only one time the amount of the grant provided for in section 2, 5 or 7, as the case may be, notwithstanding the provisions of the second paragraph of section 10 and of sections 11, 16 and 17.
1975, c. 38, s. 17; 1986, c. 54, s. 9.