D-8.1, r. 5 - Regulation respecting the application of section 2 of the Act respecting the development of Québec firms in the book industry

Updated to 12 December 2023

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chapter D-8.1, r. 5

Regulation respecting the application of section 2 of the Act respecting the development of Québec firms in the book industry

Act respecting the development of Québec firms in the book industry

(chapter D-8.1, s. 38).

1. Financial aid programs listed in Schedule A and financial aid granted by government departments, agencies and mandataries mentioned therein are not subject to section 2 of the Act respecting the development of Québec firms in the book industry (chapter D-8.1).

R.R.Q., 1981, c. D-8.1, r. 5, s. 1.

2. The following categories of persons are eligible for the financial aid prescribed in section 2 of the Act desspite of the fact that they do not hold a certificate of accreditation or are not eligible therefore.

These categories of persons are:

(1)  a cooperative association in the publishing, distribution or bookselling industry in which at least 80% of the members are persons eligible for accreditation according to the Act;

(2)  an association or a group of enterprises in the book industry that comply with paragraph 1 or in which only 1 person, not eligible for accreditation, is a director or an officer;

(3)  a bookseller that sells secondhand books or books in languages other than French and English if he satisfies with section 16 of the Act.

R.R.Q., 1981, c. D-8.1, r. 5, s. 2.

3. The following categories of activities are not subject to section 2 of the Act:

(1)  book publishing by one of the communities referred to in the following Acts: Act respecting the Cree Nation Government (chapter G-1.031); Act respecting Cree, Inuit and Naskapi Native persons (chapter A-33.1); Act respecting the James Bay Regional Zone Council (chapter C-59.1); Act approving the Northeastern Québec Agreement (chapter C-67.1); Act respecting the land regime in the James Bay and New Québec territories (chapter R-13.1); Act respecting the Makivik Corporation (chapter S-18.1); The Cree Villages and the Naskapi Village Act (chapter V-5.1); Act respecting Northern villages and the Kativik Regional Government (chapter V-6.1) or by a group or an ethnic or foreign federation;

(2)  book publishing done accessorily by, for example, an historical society;

(3)  book publishing of local or regional monographs by persons working within the scope of a specific project.

R.R.Q., 1981, c. D-8.1, r. 5, s. 3; S.Q. 2013, c. 19, s. 91.

SCHEDULE A

(s. 1)

1. Financial aid programs referred to in section 1 are as follows:

(1) financial aid granted by a government department, agency or mandatary, in the area of publishing, distribution or bookselling, for the purpose of starting up a firm or of establishing a firm outside Québec;

(2) financial aid that has been granted or may be granted by the Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport for the publishing of a French school manual within the scope of agreements with a government, a department or agency, or with a national or international body;

(3) financial aid from the Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport to non profit-making bodies, the majority control of which is Québec owned, that play or could play a publisher’s role and that have influence with French-speaking minorities outside Québec;

(4) financial aid from the Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport to a Canadian publisher that does not hold a certificate of accreditation or that is not eligible for a certificate of accreditation for the publication of a school manual pertinent to Québec.

R.R.Q., 1981, c. D-8.1, r. 5, Sch. A; O.C. 353-98, s. 1.

REFERENCES

R.R.Q., 1981, c. D-8.1, r. 5

O.C. 353-98, 1998 G.O. 2, 1469

S.Q. 2013, c. 19, s. 91