22.2. A research centre is a research centre, research institute, research structure or any other organization that makes the participation in research activities possible that is described in section 88, 89, 90 or 91 of the Act respecting health services and social services for the Inuit and Naskapi (chapter S-4.2) or in section 426 or 427 of the Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system (chapter G-1.021) and is managed by an institution described in any of those sections. The employer of the employees who hold pensionable employment under this plan in a research centre and whose remuneration is paid out of the centre’s budget is, for the purposes of this Act, one or more institutions described in section 88, 89, 90 or 91 of the Act respecting health services and social services for the Inuit and Naskapi, Santé Québec or a non-profit legal person created by one or more of those institutions or by Santé Québec for the purpose of managing a research centre, as applicable, and all the researchers deemed self-employed workers who work in the research centre, whether they are grouped together in a juridical form or not.
2010, c. 11, s. 5; 2023, c. 342023, c. 34, s. 12241.