104. A lot may be alienated, subdivided or used for a purpose other than agriculture, without the authorization of the commission, to the extent that it had already been acquired or utilized or had been the subject of an authorization to acquire or to use by order in council of the Government or by municipal by-law for a public service, by the Government, a minister or a public body or a person empowered to expropriate at the time when the provisions of this act requiring the authorization of the commission were made applicable to that lot.
The same rule applies in respect of a lot previously transferred or leased pursuant to sections 19 and 26 of the Lands and Forests Act (chapter T-9) and a lot previously acquired out of an industrial fund established pursuant to the Industrial Funds Act (chapter F-4).