28. The board hears in first instance, to the exclusion of any tribunal, any application(1) respecting the lease of a dwelling where the sum claimed or the value of the thing claimed or of the interest of the applicant in the object of the application does not exceed the amount of the jurisdiction of the Court of Québec;
(2) pertaining to any of the matters contemplated in articles 1658 to 1659.7, 1660 to 1660.3, 1660.5 and 1662 to 1662.10 of the Civil Code of Lower Canada;
(3) pertaining to any of the matters contemplated in Division II, except in sections 54.5, 54.6, 54.7 and 54.11 to 54.14.
The board is not competent, however, to hear applications contemplated in articles 645 and 656 of the Code of Civil Procedure (chapter C-25).
1979, c. 48, s. 28; 1987, c. 63, s. 11; 1987, c. 77, s. 1; 1988, c. 21, s. 66.