16. The Société may, in particular,(1) examine all applications for financial assistance and determine, in accordance with this Act and the programs, the assistance which may be granted to a business and the particular conditions to which the assistance is subject;
(2) subject to paragraph 3 of section 34, and on the conditions it determines, authorize any person to act as lender within the scope of an assistance program;
(3) authorize, on the conditions it determines, a lender to grant a loan;
(4) where a loan is used to consolidate another loan to which a subsidy granted under this Act, the Act respecting farm financing (chapter F-1.2) or any Act replaced thereby applies, determine the advantages of that subsidy over the subsidy applicable to the new loan and, where required, transfer such advantages to the new loan;
(5) take, at the expense of the borrower, when the borrower neglects to do so, the measures it judges necessary to ensure the proper maintenance of the property securing a loan or the continued operation of a business;
(6) act as the mandatary of a lender, as plaintiff or defendant, in any judicial proceeding relating to a loan;
(7) act as lender;
(8) acquire, manage, sell, rent or otherwise alienate, in its own name or as mandatary of the lender, any property securing a loan granted under this Act or another Act or connected to a program entrusted to it by the Government;
(9) reimburse a lender for the loans granted to a borrower pursuant to this Act, the Act respecting farm financing or any Act replaced thereby, when the borrower is in default on any such loan.