2. The Minister of Consumer Affairs, Cooperatives and Financial Institutions may authorize the formation, in Québec, of one or more associations having for their objects one or more or all of the following: the improvement and development of agriculture or of any of its branches, the manufacture of butter or cheese or both, the sale, purchase and transportation of live stock, farm implements, commercial fertilizers and other articles useful to the agricultural classes, and the purchase, preservation, transformation, sale and transportation of agricultural products, under such name as its founders may choose, provided that such name as a whole cannot be confounded with that of any other existing association.
R. S. 1964, c. 124, s. 2; 1966-67, c. 72, s. 23; 1975, c. 76, s. 11.