2. The Deputy Minister and the Assistant Deputy Minister for school networks are each authorized to exercise, in the place of the Minister, the following powers and duties:(1) determining at what time and in what form the apportionment of the rights and obligations of a school board which has had its territory divided up shall be transmitted, in accordance with the second paragraph of section 120 of the Education Act (chapter I-13.3);
(2) authorizing a school board, subject to the terms and conditions he determines, to provide for expenditures in its budget that exceed its revenues, in accordance with section 279 of the Education Act;
(3) giving prior authorization to the Cree School Board or the Kativik School Board to carry out certain acquisitions, leasings, constructions or repairs in accordance with the second paragraph of section 213 of the Education Act for Cree, Inuit and Naskapi Native Persons (chapter I-14), as it read on 8 June 1978.