12. Assistant directors are authorized, in the exercise of their respective powers, duties and functions, to sign(1) supply contracts;
(2) services contracts, except(a) services contracts for the transportation and handling of goods and
(b) financial services contracts, banking services contracts or legal services contracts.
The services contracts entered into must be with non-natural persons. Despite the foregoing, 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 may be entered into with natural persons, among others.
807-2024O.C. 807-2024, s. 12.