D-12.1, r. 2 - Regulation respecting the flag of Québec

Updated to 15 July 2021

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chapter D-12.1, r. 2

Regulation respecting the flag of Québec

Act respecting the flag and emblems of Québec

(chapter D-12.1, ss. 2 and 6).

1. As the national emblem, the flag of Québec must be officially displayed by a public institution or an establishment under the authority of the Administration in order to identify the former as belonging to the latter.

O.C. 727-2002, s. 1.

2. Thus, the flag of Québec must be flown on the buildings of bodies whose members are appointed by the National Assembly and on the buildings of the persons appointed by the National Assembly.

It must also be flown on the buildings of the bodies of the Administration comprising

(1)  all Government departments;

(2)  all bodies a majority of the members of which are appointed by the Government or by a minister;

(3)  all bodies at least half of the expenditures of which are borne directly by the Consolidated Revenue Fund;

(4)  all bodies whose personnel is appointed in accordance with the Public Service Act (chapter F-3.1.1); and

(5)  all bodies whose capital stock forms part of the domain of the State.

A person appointed and designated by the Government or by a minister, together with the personnel the person manages, is, in respect of the functions assigned to him by law, by the Government or by the minister, considered a body of the Administration.

O.C. 727-2002, s. 2.

3. The flag of Québec must be flown on every building in which sits a court governed by the Courts of Justice Act (chapter T-16), the Administrative Tribunal of Québec or any body that exercises an adjudicative function under the jurisdiction of Québec.

O.C. 727-2002, s. 3.

4. The flag of Québec must be flown on the buildings of the following municipal bodies:

(1)  the building where a municipal council or a borough council sits; and

(2)  the administrative centre of a metropolitan community, an intermunicipal board, a public transit authority, an intermunicipal board of transport and the Kativik Regional Government.

It must also be flown on a municipal library and in any other place where the municipality displays its banner.

O.C. 727-2002, s. 4.

5. The flag of Québec must be flown on the schools or administration buildings of the following bodies:

(1)  a school service centre governed by the Education Act (chapter I-13.3), a school board governed by the Education Act for Cree, Inuit and Naskapi Native Persons (chapter I-14) and the Comité de gestion de la taxe scolaire de l’île de Montréal;

(2)  a general and vocational college;

(3)  an educational institution referred to in section 5 of the Act respecting the Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport (chapter M-15); and

(4)  an educational institution accredited for purposes of subsidies under the Act respecting private education (chapter E-9.1).

It must be flown at the main entrance of educational institutions at the university level referred to in paragraphs 1 to 9 of section 1 of the Act respecting educational institutions at the university level (chapter E-14.1) or on their buildings.

It must also be displayed in any other place where a body referred to in this section displays its banner.

O.C. 727-2002, s. 5; O.C. 816-2021, s. 50.

6. The flag of Québec must be flown on the buildings of the following bodies in the health and social services sector:

(1)  public institutions governed by the Act respecting health services and social services (chapter S-4.2) and by the Act respecting health services and social services for Cree Native persons (chapter S-5);

(2)  private institutions governed by those Acts and funded by the Consolidated Revenue Fund; and

(3)  agencies and regional health and social services councils referred to in those Acts.

O.C. 727-2002, s. 6.

7. The flag of Québec may be flown in front of buildings rather than on them.

O.C. 727-2002, s. 7.

8. The flag of Québec may be displayed in the public entrance inside a building if the body occupies only part of the building and is not on the outside perimeter of the building.

O.C. 727-2002, s. 8.

9. The flag of Québec must be displayed in the room in which sit the bodies referred to in section 3 or the councils of the bodies referred to in sections 4 to 6.

O.C. 727-2002, s. 9.

10. A body referred to in this Regulation must fly the flag at half mast where the Government so decides.

O.C. 727-2002, s. 10.

11. Any displayed flag must comply with the standards of the Bureau de normalisation du Québec.

The flag must bear no tears or lacerations.

O.C. 727-2002, s. 11.

12. A body referred to in this Regulation must not display the flag of Québec on a mast or flagpole together with another flag or banner.

O.C. 727-2002, s. 12.

13. This Regulation replaces the Order respecting the flag of Québec (R.R.Q., 1981, c. D-13, r.2).

O.C. 727-2002, s. 13.

14. (Omitted).

O.C. 727-2002, s. 14.

REFERENCES

O.C. 727-2002, 2002 G.O. 2, 2685

S.Q. 2002, c. 75, s. 46

S.Q. 2005, c. 32, s. 309

O.C. 816-2021, 2021 G.O. 2, 2103