4. Assistant deputy ministers, directors general and the secretary general and director general of the Direction générale des services à la gestion are authorized to sign any agreement.
Directors, regional directors and assistant directors are authorized to sign agreements of a local or regional nature or of a technical nature, except agreements conferring upon a municipality the application of all or part of an Act under the jurisdiction of the Minister.
This section applies neither to the amendments made to an agreement entered into for the purposes of section 61 of the Natural Heritage Conservation Act nor to the decision of the Minister made for the purposes of section 63 of that Act to withdraw the recognition of a private property as a nature reserve.