5.2. Where an agricultural operations corporation, an agricultural operations partnership, an agricultural operations cooperative or a group of persons contemplated in sections 14 and 15 was a recipient of a grant provided for in section 2, 5 or 7, as the case may be, and where at the time the grant was made, two persons contemplated in section 23 who were members thereof both met the conditions prescribed in this Act to qualify the corporation, partnership, cooperative or group for all or part of the grant, each of them is, for the purposes of paragraph 3 of the first paragraph of section 5.1, deemed to have already caused that corporation, partnership, cooperative or group to be the recipient of a grant.