E-8.1 - Act respecting public elementary and secondary education

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594. Section 8 of the Act respecting the Ministère de l’Éducation (chapter M-15) is amended by replacing the third and the fourth paragraphs by the following paragraphs:
Under the authority of the Minister and Deputy Minister, each associate deputy minister is responsible for ensuring that the confessional status of educational establishments recognized as Catholic or Protestant is respected and for securing the exercise of confessional rights by Catholics and Protestants in the other educational institutions.
In the exercise of the responsibilities contemplated in the third paragraph the powers of the associate deputy minister are those of the Minister, his orders must be carried out in the same manner as those of the Minister and his official signature gives force and authority to any document relating to any matter under his competence.
The associate deputy minister shall also exercise the powers of the Deputy Minister within the spheres determined by the Minister.
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1984, c. 39, s. 594.