T-11.011, r. 1 - Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Act Exclusions Regulation

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chapter T-11.011, r. 1

Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Act Exclusions Regulation

Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Act

(chapter T-11.011, s. 66, pars. 2 and 7).

1. Notwithstanding section 3 of the Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Act (chapter T-11.011), the following persons, bodies or agencies, as well as the persons elected or appointed to one of those bodies or agencies, and the members of the personnel of those persons, bodies or agencies are not considered to be lobbyists for the purposes of the Act:

1°  the Lieutenant-Governor, the National Assembly, any person designated by the National Assembly to an office under its jurisdiction and any body or agency to which the National Assembly or one of its committees appoints the majority of the members;

2°  educational institutions at the university level referred to in paragraphs 1 to 12 of section 1 of the Act respecting educational institutions at the university level (chapter E-14.1);

3°  general and vocational colleges established under the General and Vocational Colleges Act (chapter C-29);

4°  school service centres governed by the Education Act (chapter I-13.3) or 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;

5°  private institutions accredited for the purposes of subsidies under the Act respecting private education (chapter E-9.1);

6°  any other educational institution over half of the expenditures of which are provided for in the estimates tabled in the National Assembly otherwise than under a transferred appropriation;

7°  public or private institutions under agreement referred to in the Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system (chapter G-1.021) or the Act respecting health services and social services for the Inuit and Naskapi (chapter S-4.2);

8°  regional councils established under the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5);

9°  (this paragraph ceased to have effect on 1 July 2005);

10°  regional conferences of elected officials and local development centres referred to respectively in the Act respecting the Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l’Occupation du territoire (chapter M-22.1) and the Act respecting the Ministère de l’Économie, de l’Innovation et de l’Énergie (chapter M-14.1); and

11°  any person whose job or function consists, even substantially, in lobbying on behalf of an association or other non-profit group not constituted to serve management, union or professional interests, nor composed of a majority of members that are profit-seeking enterprises or representatives of profit-seeking enterprises.

O.C. 179-2003, s. 1; S.Q. 2021, c. 20, s. 6; D. 816-2021, s. 106.

2. The Act does not apply to submissions made by a person who is not a consultant lobbyist on behalf of the Authorité des marchés financiers or the Chambre de l’assurance to the Minister responsible for the Act respecting the distribution of financial products and services (chapter D-9.2) or for the Act respecting the regulation of the financial sector (chapter E-6.1) or on behalf of the Organisme d’autoréglementation du courtage immobilier du Québec to the Minister responsible for the Real Estate Brokerage Act (chapter C-73.2) concerning the development, introduction, amendment or defeat of proposals concerning those Acts and the regulations made thereunder.

O.C. 179-2003, s. 2.

3. Considering section 71 of the Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Act (chapter T-11.011), the provisions of paragraph 9 of section 1 ceased to have effect on 1 July 2005.

O.C. 179-2003, s. 3.

4. (Omitted).

O.C. 179-2003, s. 4.

REFERENCES

O.C. 179-2003, 2003 G.O. 2, 1019

S.Q. 2004, c. 37, s. 91

S.Q. 2008, c. 9, s. 156

S.Q. 2018, c. 23, s. 811

S.Q. 2019, c. 29, s. 1

S.Q. 2021, c. 20, s. 6

D. 816-2021, 2021 G.O. 2, 2103

S.Q. 2023, c. 34, ss. 1293 and 1634

S.Q. 2025, c. 24, s. 184

S.Q. 2025, c. 16, s. 32