5. The Minister may require security in such amount as he may fix of any person who has no residence or place of business in Québec as a condition for the issue or continuance in force of a registration certificate.
The Minister may also require of any person, as a condition for the issue or continuance in force of a registration certificate, security in such amount as he may fix, taking into account the amounts, if any, that the person is likely to collect, remit or pay under this Act within the six months following the date on which security is required or the amounts, if any, that the person had to collect, remit or pay under this Act for the six months preceding that date, if such person, as the case may be,(a) was convicted during the preceding five years of an offence under a fiscal law within the meaning of the Act respecting the Ministère du Revenu (chapter M-31),
(b) is insolvent, or
(c) owes duties within the meaning of the Act respecting the Ministère du Revenu.
The Minister may, at any time, require additional security where the amount of the security paid is less than the amount that could then be fixed under the second paragraph.
R. S. 1964, c. 71, s. 5; 1971, c. 26, s. 3; 1972, c. 22, s. 98; 1990, c. 4, s. 454; 1990, c. 60, s. 3.