175. For the purpose of determining whether a person is qualified as an elector, a candidate or a qualified voter at an election or a referendum in the territory of the annexing municipality, any period, prior to the annexation, during which the person was resident, continuously or not, in the annexed territory or was the owner of an immovable or the occupant of a business establishment situated in that territory shall be counted as if the person had been a resident, owner or occupant in the territory of the annexing municipality from the beginning of that period.
1988, c. 19, s. 175; 1999, c. 25, s. 90; 1999, c. 40, s. 202.