Titre de la loi

c. T-11.011, r.0.1

Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Act Exclusions Regulation

Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Act

(R.S.Q., c. T-11.011, s. 66, pars. 2 and 7)

1. Notwithstanding section 3 of the Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Act (R.S.Q., c. 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) university level institutions referred to in paragraphs 1 to 11 of section 1 of the Act respecting educational institutions at the university level (R.S.Q., c. E-14.1) ;

(3) general and vocational colleges established under the General and Vocational Colleges Act (R.S.Q., c. C-29) ;

(4) school boards governed by the Education Act (R.S.Q., c. I-13.3) or the Education Act for Cree, Inuit and Naskapi Native Persons (R.S.Q., c. 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 (R.S.Q., c. 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 health services and social services (R.S.Q., c. S-4.2) ;

(8) regional councils established under the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (R.S.Q., c. S-5) ;

(9) municipalities of fewer than 10 000 inhabitants and any body referred to in section 18 or 19 of the Act respecting the pension plan of elected municipal officers (R.S.Q., c. R-9.3) ; (This paragraph will cease to have effect on 1 July 2005)

(10) regional development councils and local development centres referred to in the Act respecting the Ministère des Régions (R.S.Q., c. M-25.001) ; 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.

2. The Act does not apply to submissions made by a person who is not a consultant lobbyist on behalf of the Bureau des services financiers, the Chambre de la sécurité financière or the Chambre de l'assurance de dommages to the Minister responsible for the Act respecting the distribution of financial products and services (R.S.Q., c. D-9.2) or for the Act respecting the Agence nationale d'encadrement du secteur financier (2002, c. 45) or on behalf of the Association des courtiers et agents immobiliers du Québec to the Minister responsible for the Real Estate Brokerage Act (R.S.Q., c. C-73.1) 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, the provisions of paragraph 9 of section 1 will cease to have effect on 1 July 2005.

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

4. This Regulation comes into force on 1 March 2003.

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

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