3. For the purposes of this Act, the following are bodies and persons belonging to the public sector:1° any public body or government agency within the meaning of the Auditor General Act (chapter V-5.01); 2° 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); 3° any university-level institution referred to in paragraphs 1 to 11 of section 1 of the Act respecting educational institutions at the university level (chapter E-14.1), other than those mentioned in paragraph 2; 4° any general and vocational college established under the General and Vocational Colleges Act (chapter C-29); 5° any school service centre governed by the Education Act (chapter I-13.3) or any school board 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; 6° any private institution accredited for purposes of subsidies under the Act respecting private education (chapter E-9.1); 7° any other educational institution more than half of whose expenditures are provided for in the budgetary estimates tabled in the National Assembly otherwise than under a transferred appropriation;
8° any childcare centre, any day care centre benefiting from subsidized childcare spaces and any home educational childcare coordinating office referred to in the Educational Childcare Act (chapter S-4.1.1); 8.1° the institutions referred to in Schedule II to the Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system (chapter G-1.021) and the private institutions under agreement governed by that Act; 9° any public institution or private institution that is a party to an agreement referred to in the Act respecting health services and social services for the Inuit and Naskapi (chapter S-4.2); 10° the regional council established under the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5); 11° any municipality or any body referred to in section 18 or 19 of the Act respecting the Pension Plan of Elected Municipal Officers (chapter R-9.3); 12° the James Bay Regional Administration and any delegate organization referred to in section 126.4 of the Municipal Powers Act (chapter C-47.1); and 13° any agency described in paragraph 4 of section 4 of the Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Act (chapter T-11.011).