17. The decision to suspend a State administrator provisionally from his or her duties shall be made by the deputy minister to whom that State administrator reports and the decision to suspend a deputy minister provisionally from his or her duties shall be made by the Secretary General of the Conseil exécutif.
However, if the proposed sanction for a State administrator is dismissal, the Secretary General of the Conseil exécutif may immediately, for a period not exceeding 30 days, either suspend the administrator provisionally from his or her duties without remuneration, or modify a provisional suspension that has already been imposed so that it is thenceforth without remuneration.