Q-2 - Environment Quality Act

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31.106. The Government may, for emergency-response or humanitarian reasons or any other reason considered to be in the public interest, lift the prohibition set out in section 31.105 and allow the transfer of water out of Québec, subject to section 31.107 and to subdivision 2 and the other provisions of this Act that set out conditions for the authorization of water withdrawals.
The prohibition may be lifted in relation to one specific case or several cases.
The Government’s decision must state why the prohibition is being lifted.
2009, c. 21, s. 19.