35.1. Every person having subscribed an undertaking under the Act respecting immigration to Québec (chapter I-0.2) whereby he promised to help a foreign national and the dependants, if any, who accompany the foreign national, to settle in Québec, must reimburse the amount of the benefits granted to the foreign national and to those dependants during the period covered by the undertaking, where the undertaking so provides. The sums involved are recoverable by the Minister in accordance with the provisions of this division.