5. The associate secretaries and the assistant secretaries are authorized, in the exercise of their respective powers, duties and functions, to sign(1) supply contracts for less than $25,000, save where the good concerned is acquired by catalogue from the Centre d’acquisitions gouvernementales or, as the case may be, Infrastructures technologiques Québec in which case no limit applies to the amount of such contracts;
(2) services contracts relating to the hiring of a labour relations negotiator or arbitrator, of an expert witness before the court or of a physician or a dentist in matters of medical assessment;
(3) financial services contracts, banking services contracts or legal services contracts;
(4) contracts for travel services;
(5) services contracts other than those referred to in paragraphs 2 to 4, except insurance contracts and auxiliary services contracts for the transportation and handling of goods, in which case no limit applies to the amount of such contracts, except in the following cases where the following maximum limits apply:(a) $250,000 where the service provider is a legal person;
(b) $100,000 where the service provider is a natural person or where the object concerned is the supply of personnel; and
(6) authorizations for out-of-court settlements, with or without consideration, discharges from any personal right, and any act, document or writing relating to those discharges.