1. In this Act and in the regulations, unless the context indicates otherwise, “taxation year”, “corporation” and “mineral resource” have the same meaning as in sections 1, and 5 to 7, as the case may be, of the Taxation Act (chapter I-3), “related corporation” has the same meaning as in sections 17 to 21 of the said Act, and
“production operations” means all the operations involved in the assembling, processing or conditioning of goods, resulting in other goods different in nature or characteristics from the former, or the reconditioning or repair of moveable property by its owner, and includes the operations of a business engaged in farming, logging, the extraction or treatment of mineral resources, or fisheries, but does not include construction, meal preparation, or any other prescribed operation;
“allowable expenditure” has the meaning given in section 13;
“manufacturing business” means a business in which the production factors involved in a prescribed manufacturing or processing operation are grouped and coordinated;
“fund” means the industrial incentives fund created by this Act;
“allowable investment” has the meaning given in section 21;
“prescribed”, in the case of a form or of information to be furnished on a form, means prescribed by the Minister of Industry, Trade, Science and Technology; in any other case, it means prescribed by regulation;
“regulation” means any regulation made under this Act by the Government;
“Zone I” or “Zone II” means that part of the territory of Québec prescribed as Zone I or Zone II, as the case may be.