17. The Minister shall, with all due dispatch, examine the application sent to him and determine the real estate tax refund to which the person is entitled.
However, he is not bound to examine a person’s application so long as he has not received the fiscal return contemplated in section 1000 of the Taxation Act (chapter I-3) that the person is required to file, or would be required to file if tax were payable by him under Part I of the said Act, in respect of the year for which a real estate tax refund is applied for and, where such is the case, the certificate contemplated in section 16.
1979, c. 12, s. 17; 1993, c. 64, s. 235.