2. For the purposes of this Act, the following are public bodies:(1) government departments, as well as bodies and persons appointed or designated by the Government or a minister and whose personnel is appointed in accordance with the Public Service Act (chapter F-3.1.1); (2) school service centres governed by the Education Act (chapter I-13.3), school boards governed by the Education Act for Cree, Inuit and Naskapi Native Persons (chapter I-14) and the Comité de gestion de la taxe scolaire de l’île de Montréal; (3) general and vocational colleges established under the General and Vocational Colleges Act (chapter C-29); (4) the Université du Québec and its constituent universities, research institutes and superior schools within the meaning of the Act respecting the Université du Québec (chapter U-1); (5) private institutions under agreement governed by the Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system (chapter G-1.021), the Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services, public institutions and private institutions under agreement governed by the Act respecting health services and social services for the Inuit and Naskapi (chapter S-4.2), as well as the regional council established under the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5); (6) budget-funded bodies and bodies other than budget-funded bodies listed respectively in Schedules 1 and 2 to the Financial Administration Act (chapter A-6.001), including the persons listed in those schedules; (7) government enterprises listed in Schedule 3 to the Financial Administration Act; and
(8) any other entity designated by the Government.
For the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to service contracts, the institutions referred to in Schedule II to the Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system are also public bodies. To that end, those institutions must consider, if applicable, the workforce-related control measures taken under this Act for Santé Québec.
2014, c. 17, s. 2; 2020, c. 12020, c. 1, s. 2761; 2023, c. 342023, c. 34, s. 103311a.