15. No such separate or additional county society shall be entitled to any share of the public grant for the year in which it is formed, unless such formation has taken place before the first day of May in such year.
The society number one and the society number two in a county may, by petition addressed to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and approved by the Minister, unite, and shall then form one society, under the name of the “Agricultural Society of the County of ”.
R. S. 1964, c. 112, s. 15; 1973, c. 22, s. 22; 1979, c. 77, s. 21.