2. The Minister, on the basis of data allowing him to believe it advantageous that municipalities amalgamate or that a study be made on the expediency of amalgamation by certain municipalities, may establish regrouping units comprising city, town, village or country municipalities and attach to them any part of an un-organized territory contiguous to any of them.
The Minister may alter the boundaries of the regrouping units and may amalgamate any of them with others if contiguous.
The Minister shall give notice in the Gazette officielle du Québec of the decisions he has made under this section and these decisions shall come into force from such publication.
Such notice shall also be published in a French newspaper and an English newspaper circulating in the territories of the municipalities contemplated by the decisions; if there is no English newspaper circulating in a territory, the Minister may be relieved of publishing the notice in an English newspaper there.