5. The Inspector General may, at any time, by notice, require any company to make a return upon any subject connected with its affairs within the time specified in the notice, and, upon default in making such return, each director of the company, and each person acting as a representative of such company in Québec, shall, in addition to the costs, be liable to a fine of $25 for each day of such default, and, failing payment of such fine and costs, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months.
The notice to which reference is made in the preceding paragraph may be published in the Gazette officielle du Québec, and in such event, the return demanded shall be filed within the sixty days following such publication.
R. S. 1964, c. 273, s. 5; 1971, c. 76, s. 4; 1982, c. 52, s. 228; 1986, c. 58, s. 103.