August le Blanc
33. (1) Words importing female persons include male persons and corporations and words importing male persons include female persons and corporations.
Number
(2) Words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the singular.
Parts of speech and grammatical forms
(3) Where a word is defined, other parts of speech and grammatical forms of the same word have corresponding meanings.
R.S., 1985, c. I-21, s. 33; 1992, c. 1, s. 90.