8. The person exercising the highest authority in a public body shall perform the duties conferred by this Act on the person in charge of access to documents or of protection of personal information.
However, that person may designate a member of the public body or of its board of directors, as the case may be, or a member of its management staff as the person in charge, and delegate all or part of his duties to him.
The delegation must be made in writing, and the delegator must send a notice of it to the Commission d’accès à l’information.
1982, c. 30, s. 8; 1987, c. 68, s. 3; 2006, c. 22, s. 4.