S-4.2 - Act respecting health services and social services

Section 489.4 Disposition versions

2022-04-06

489.4. The Minister may authorize any person in writing to conduct an investigation in the following cases:

(1)  where an institution is not complying with the law;

(2)  where an institution engages in practices or tolerates a situation that could pose a threat to the health or well-being of the persons served by the institution;

(3)  where the Minister becomes aware, at any time in a fiscal year, that the expenditures of a public institution exceed its revenues and that its budgetary balance is at risk; and

(4)  where the Minister considers that there has been a serious fault, such as embezzlement, in the management of the public institution.

A person authorized to conduct an investigation is vested, for the purposes of the investigation, with the powers and immunity of a commissioner appointed under the Act respecting public inquiry commissions (chapter C-37), except the power to impose imprisonment.

2022, c. 6, s. 35.