64. The grant shall be due and payable to each society, so soon as the report, statement of accounts and plan of operations thereof have received the approval of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and so soon as the president and secretary-treasurer or any other officer of the society has sent to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food an affidavit, according to form 3, sworn to before a justice of the peace, giving the names of the members then forming part of the society, whose subscriptions for the current year have been paid into and are in the hands of the treasurer.
The said affidavit shall be sent by registered or certified letter to the Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation, on or before the 1st of September in each year; and if it be not sent on such date or within the following thirty days, the grant for such year may be suppressed; but the secretary of the Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation shall give notice, on the 1st of July in each year, to all the societies, by a registered or certified letter addressed to the secretary-treasurer of each society, that its grant for the year will not be allowed if the affidavit required by this section has not been sent by a registered or certified letter to the Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation as required by law.
R. S. 1964, c. 112, s. 64; 1973, c. 22, s. 22; 1975, c. 83, s. 84; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1979, c. 77, s. 21.