14. A local administrator may pay to the head of a beneficiary unit or his consort who intends to be absent from the community for a period of 10 consecutive days or more, for the purpose of conducting harvesting or related activities or land development activities having been the subject of a decision of the Minister pursuant to the second paragraph of section 6 and who has not benefited under the provisions of the last paragraph of section 12, an advance, upon his next regular payment, in the amount of $100 per eligible adult in the beneficiary unit.
Where the head of a beneficiary unit or his consort has not received a payment he is entitled to receive under section 12, the local administrator may make such payment to him out of the funds contemplated in section 37.
The head of a beneficiary unit or his consort may himself take the initiative of requesting the payment of the advance contemplated in the first paragraph or the payment contemplated in the second paragraph.
1979, c. 16, s. 14; 1988, c. 60, s. 10.