31.3.For the purposes of sections 30.1 and 31, a person eligible under the compensation program provided for in section 233 of the Act to reform the municipal territorial organization of the metropolitan regions of Montréal, Québec and the Outaouais (2000, chapter 56) or a similar compensation program established by an order referred to in section 125.27 of the Act respecting municipal territorial organization (chapter O-9) is deemed to cease to be a member of the council of the former municipality only at the end of the period covered by the program.